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There's always fdroid! https://f-droid.org/ https://f-droid.org/

by _lce0 11y ago

yohui 11y ago
Are there any other good sources for open source Android apps? I love F-Droid, but they plan to drop Firefox, and Chromium will never make it on there.
- wutbrodo 11y ago
  Do you know why they're planning to drop Firefox? And why would Chromium never make it on there? I don't know much about F-Droid and its limitations. EDIT: Okay I did the Google search that I should've just done in the first place. Apparently they're not dropping Firefox fully, but rather forking it to "remove the proprietary binaries out of the official builds" (Google Play API, etc). I suppose APIs like that are important enough to your use-case that you need an alternative source for Firefox?
  - yohui 11y ago
    F-Droid wants to drop Firefox because Google Play is now required to build it (though not to run it). Same reason why Chromium isn't being considered: https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/chromium/page/2/#post-16388 https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/chromium/page/2/#post-16388 F-Droid has (temporarily?) taken down their Fennec fork, seemingly due to difficulties with development: https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/please-do-not-drop-firefox-support/page/2/#post-18072 https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/please-do-not-drop-firefox-... This is presumably why Firefox's removal has been continuously postponed. Reliability is one of the reasons why I would prefer first-party Firefox over a third-party fork. Though there are good reasons why F-Droid doesn't include Chromium and seeks to remove Firefox, the absence of many open source Android apps from F-Droid's catalog has a direct impact on utility. It's also not uncommon for apps on F-Droid to lag behind the version on Google Play or the latest release direct from the developer. (Again, there are good reasons why they screen apps, but it does impose a delay.) I appreciate F-Droid's screening process, and I wouldn't want it to go away, but it'd be nice to have an alternative open source Android app catalog that's a little more liberal.
    - wutbrodo 11y ago
      Gotcha, so very roughly speaking the same reason that people sometimes leave Debian for Ubuntu, because they hit the balance between ideological purity and convenience a bit better.

There's always fdroid! https://f-droid.org/ https://f-droid.org/

by _lce0 11y ago

There's always fdroid! https://f-droid.org/ https://f-droid.org/

yohui 11y ago

Are there any other good sources for open source Android apps? I love F-Droid, but they plan to drop Firefox, and Chromium will never make it on there.

wutbrodo 11y ago
Do you know why they're planning to drop Firefox? And why would Chromium never make it on there? I don't know much about F-Droid and its limitations. EDIT: Okay I did the Google search that I should've just done in the first place. Apparently they're not dropping Firefox fully, but rather forking it to "remove the proprietary binaries out of the official builds" (Google Play API, etc). I suppose APIs like that are important enough to your use-case that you need an alternative source for Firefox?
- yohui 11y ago
  F-Droid wants to drop Firefox because Google Play is now required to build it (though not to run it). Same reason why Chromium isn't being considered: https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/chromium/page/2/#post-16388 https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/chromium/page/2/#post-16388 F-Droid has (temporarily?) taken down their Fennec fork, seemingly due to difficulties with development: https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/please-do-not-drop-firefox-support/page/2/#post-18072 https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/please-do-not-drop-firefox-... This is presumably why Firefox's removal has been continuously postponed. Reliability is one of the reasons why I would prefer first-party Firefox over a third-party fork. Though there are good reasons why F-Droid doesn't include Chromium and seeks to remove Firefox, the absence of many open source Android apps from F-Droid's catalog has a direct impact on utility. It's also not uncommon for apps on F-Droid to lag behind the version on Google Play or the latest release direct from the developer. (Again, there are good reasons why they screen apps, but it does impose a delay.) I appreciate F-Droid's screening process, and I wouldn't want it to go away, but it'd be nice to have an alternative open source Android app catalog that's a little more liberal.
  - wutbrodo 11y ago
    Gotcha, so very roughly speaking the same reason that people sometimes leave Debian for Ubuntu, because they hit the balance between ideological purity and convenience a bit better.