this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2025
36 points (100.0% liked)

Opensource

2699 readers
66 users here now

A community for discussion about open source software! Ask questions, share knowledge, share news, or post interesting stuff related to it!

CreditsIcon base by Lorc under CC BY 3.0 with modifications to add a gradient

⠀

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
pylapp@programming.dev
36
NGI Mobifree funds client app overhaul | F-Droid (f-droid.org)
submitted 3 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/opensource@programming.dev
7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

The F-Droid app was created in 2009 in the early days of Android and lots of its code is still that old. While the ecosystem has seen many drastic shifts, the F-Droid community heroically kept the app alive with band aids and chewing gum.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] hosaka@programming.dev 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Obtanium is also a good alternative btw

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's good alongside F-Droid, doesn't really work as a complete replacement.

[–] hosaka@programming.dev 0 points 3 weeks ago

It pretty much does, at least for all the apps I want to use I have no need to use fdroid. If not, maintainers should probably publish apks and have reproducible builds