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GitDroid: A third party Android app manager for apps uploaded to GitHub releases
- rocketvole 1y agosorry, I don't use android, but how is this different from unobtainium?
- Cyphase 1y agoUnobtanium supports more sources, for one.
- Cyphase 1y agos/Unobtanium/Obtainium/g
- noname120 1y agoUnobtainium is horrible unreliable and clunky software. It's way worse than AUR and that's an under statement.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- aaviator42 1y agoIn what ways?
- airtonix 1y ago[dead]
- noname120 1y agoHasn't been updated for 2 years. Is it feature-complete?
- yesbut 1y agoF-Droid
- Cyphase 1y agoF-Droid requires a compatible repository; it doesn't work with GitHub releases.
- chneu 1y agoI was thinking that one could "roll their own repository" that scrapes githubs and then just throw that into f-droid. Probably already exists.
- mook 1y agoIzzyOnDroid is basically this already; it's a third-party repository that's maintained by some person that does updates.
- Cyphase 1y agoUnobtanium supports more sources, has more features, and is actively developed. https://obtainium.imranr.dev/ https://obtainium.imranr.dev/ https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium
- techwizrd 1y agoThis is what I use, and it works well. It's very straightforward to add apps and automatically update them as new releases are pushed to Github or wherever they are hosted.
- Cyphase 1y agos/Unobtanium/Obtainium/g
- sunaookami 1y agoFunny how everyone in this thread uses the wrong name, like a collective halluzination :D
- bogwog 1y agoSupports the dead internet theory
- bcraven 1y agoI've seen you type this exact phrase twice now and I'm not sure what it means.
- homebrewer 1y agohttps://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159367/using-sed-to-find-and-replace https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159367/using-sed-to...
- HideousKojima 1y agoThe same syntax is also used in vim
- Interior 1y agoI'd suggest Unobtanium. This doesn't look actively maintained.
- sigmonsays 1y agoI <3 obtainium, i'm not sure what unobtanium is
- zem 1y agoyou wouldn't get it
- 0xbadcafebee 1y agoYou know what I really want? No more "app stores" or "app managers". Just let me download and run an application, like on every non-mobile computer in the world. I hate the constant updates. I hate the end-of-life OS forks. I hate the limited programming languages. I hate that there's this complicated gatekeeping, where you have to jump through a bunch of extra hoops to install a program if it hasn't been blessed by some specific official organization. And I hate that all the mobile phones come locked up (if not to a mobile carrier, then to an operating system, only able to be maintained by a specific 3rd party, and the device becomes a useless brick once that specific 3rd party stops supporting that specific operating system on that specific device). Regular computers work much better. A common architecture. Run any OS built for that common architecture. Run any program that has executable machine code for that common architecture. You can install a different OS when the old one is unsupported. You can keep using the hardware until the hardware dies, not just until the company who made it drops that hardware's support. Common hardware components so every OS doesn't have to support every different individual model of computer. No gatekeeping of the programs you can install. No extra hoops. Just a machine that can run whatever you want it to. I just want a computer in my pocket. I don't want all the extra bullshit.
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- cholantesh 1y agoI'm a Fedora guy through and through but...did Ubuntu Touch die on the vine? It seemed like it was approaching some approximation of this.
- nosioptar 1y agoIt's still around,but only supports a few devices. Last I looked, it didn't work with volte.
- virtue3 1y agoI agree... but also that computer in our pocket has our entire life wrapped in it. The desktop has some mitigations against this. PWNing your mobile device could completely wreck you in a lot of ways. I switched from android to iphone because someone 0-day'd me. I'm not saying it can't happen on iOS or something; just less likely - and mostly because of these restrictions.
- gitroom 1y agoman, i feel this big time - all i want is to just run what i want on my phone without all the locked down nonsense, feels like every device now is less mine than ever tbh. ever wonder who actually gains the most from all this locking down? is it just security or something else too?
- dengolius 1y agoBut what about https://f-droid.org/en/ https://f-droid.org/en/ ? It do the same but have a nice gui =)
- gruez 1y ago>It do the same It literally doesn't. F-droid has its own repo format, whereas this app gets releases from github releases directly.
- iggldiggl 1y agoAs also pointed out in a sibling thread, there's https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/ https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/ though, which is somebody's curated collection of apps with Github releases in the form of an F-Droid repository.
- sneak 1y agoAka how to give anyone who can legally compel Microsoft RCE on your device. We all put far too much faith in the github.com TLS cert.
- philipwhiuk 1y agoIs that any different from compelling an F-Droid maintainer or Google Play?
- sneak 1y agoMicrosoft and Google do this sort of stuff for their government all of the time. I imagine the F-Droid people aren’t in the habit and would make noise about it.
- 0x073 1y agoWhat a bad name for such app, as it has nothing to do with the actual git.
- aae42 1y agoI've noticed this on my org as well, people refer to "putting things in git" and 75% of the time they're referring to the source forge.
- FloatArtifact 1y agoWhat's the closest equivalent for windows PC?
- TechnicJelle 1y agoHey all, I'm the developer of this app. This was literally my first ever Flutter app and it honestly sucks. I made it before I found out that Obtainium exists. Even so, I'm glad I made it, because I learnt a lot while making it. It is unlikely that it will be finished or even worked on any time soon.