Ideally you would be able to build it yourself and compare the checksums, but often that requires some extra effort to prevent particulars of the compile enviro

Ideally you would be able to build it yourself and compare the checksums, but often that requires some extra effort to prevent particulars of the compile environment from affecting the binary. Debian is working with moderate success to make their packages reproducible.[1] On the Android side, F-Droid builds apps themselves from public repos.[2] [1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds [2] https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Inclusion_How-To https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Inclusion_How-To