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Lawnchair on F-Droid says it's no longer maintained?

windexh8er 3y ago
What's really odd is they support no app stores. Not GPlay or FDroid. So they expect users to continually download APK and update? Seems like a great pattern to keep their user base small - but maybe that's what they're after.
- rjzzleep 3y ago
  Most of these apps are in the Izzyondroid fdroid repo. It's there by default in Droid-ify which is much better than the official fdroid client anyway. https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/app.lawnchair https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/app.lawnchair
- kwanbix 3y ago
  What do you mean? Lawnchair is on the playstore. The only thing is that it tells me it was built for an older version of android, so I cannot install it.
  - windexh8er 3y ago
    I think it's safe to assume most want a supported version of an app, not something that's been abandoned on the Play Store. From the Lawnchair site [0]: "Do you still support the Play Store version? Unfortunately not. We no longer support the play store version; issues about it won't be accepted. This is done to focus development on making Lawnchair 12.1 finished and making it similar to Lawnchair 2. Also, maintaining legacy code is not a focus of the developers." [0] https://lawnchair.app/faq/ https://lawnchair.app/faq/
  - lucb1e 3y ago
    Wait, Google lets you view it but just not download? Android is perfectly capable of running that afaik; I'm sure that my current version (11 I think?) is at least backwards compatible back till Android 4, if not Android 2 You could try Aurora Store, which uses a pool of dummy Google accounts to pull apks from their servers. I doubt it has belittling restrictions like what you describe, and there's also a manual download option which can sometimes let you get old versions if the server still has them and you know the build number
rjzzleep 3y ago
I used it and it was better than the Pixel launcher in my opinion, but yes it seems like the last update was a year ago.

What's really odd is they support no app stores. Not GPlay or FDroid. So they expect users to continually download APK and update? Seems like a great pattern to keep their user base small - but maybe that's what they're after.

rjzzleep 3y ago
Most of these apps are in the Izzyondroid fdroid repo. It's there by default in Droid-ify which is much better than the official fdroid client anyway. https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/app.lawnchair https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/app.lawnchair
kwanbix 3y ago
What do you mean? Lawnchair is on the playstore. The only thing is that it tells me it was built for an older version of android, so I cannot install it.
- windexh8er 3y ago
  I think it's safe to assume most want a supported version of an app, not something that's been abandoned on the Play Store. From the Lawnchair site [0]: "Do you still support the Play Store version? Unfortunately not. We no longer support the play store version; issues about it won't be accepted. This is done to focus development on making Lawnchair 12.1 finished and making it similar to Lawnchair 2. Also, maintaining legacy code is not a focus of the developers." [0] https://lawnchair.app/faq/ https://lawnchair.app/faq/
- lucb1e 3y ago
  Wait, Google lets you view it but just not download? Android is perfectly capable of running that afaik; I'm sure that my current version (11 I think?) is at least backwards compatible back till Android 4, if not Android 2 You could try Aurora Store, which uses a pool of dummy Google accounts to pull apks from their servers. I doubt it has belittling restrictions like what you describe, and there's also a manual download option which can sometimes let you get old versions if the server still has them and you know the build number

rjzzleep 3y ago

I used it and it was better than the Pixel launcher in my opinion, but yes it seems like the last update was a year ago.