Awesome app. It is somehow not listed on android-foss list so maybe someone didn’t know about it.

Obtainium allows you to install and update Open-Source Apps directly from their releases pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available.

GitHub page: Link.

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    1 year ago

    I don’t want to watch the video on “why this app is better than fdroid”. So, does anyone care to write an TL;DR?

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      1 year ago

      It’s not better than F-Droid, it’s useful for apps that aren’t on F-Droid tho

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      1 year ago

      Only reason I installed it is for it’s ability to use GitHub releases as a source and notify me if there are updates. As far as I’m aware you have to use f-droid repositories with f-droid – but it’s been a long time since I had f-droid installed.

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      1 year ago

      It can replace fdroid with caveats. Direct download from gitlab/hub/codeberg/fdroid official with searching. Other git/fdroid repos with manual web addy entry. Good for stuff both on and off fdroid.

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      1 year ago

      You get app updates directly from the devs, without f-droid acting as a middle man.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t even know why that video is there. At first glance, you might think it’s a video explaining how Obtainium works. But it’s actually a video about how to manually set up an RSS feed of the apps you use from GitHub. This video is just what had inspired the developer to make Obtainium.