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F-Droid 2.0

1465 points · 420 comments · daveoc64

  1. aorth · · focus · HN ↗
    Cool! Unfortunately I switched to Obtanium a year or so ago. I get all my apps from GitHub releases straight from the developers now.
    1. szszrk · · focus · HN ↗
      Do you use a lot of apps with that?

      I tried it with 3 random apps for a while, but instantly got into issues. Two stopped updating due to Obtanium falling behind how app releases - for instance, developer changed version numbering scheme but Obtanium didn't expect that, so an outdated version was always presented. It wasn't fixed for quite a while.

      1. aorth · · focus · HN ↗
        I have 23 currently. It's surprising how fast it happened... I don't have any problems, but I don't pay much attention to it and apps seem to update automatically sometimes and after a manual refresh other times.
        1. Gander5739 · · focus · HN ↗
          I've found Droid-ify more reliable at doing background updates, though it still only manages it sometimes (possibly due in some way to how I installed the apps). Hopefully Fdroid's app will be better at this.
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