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Clients for F Droid (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 year ago by Tucumano88@lemmy.zip to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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I was thinking, there is some comparative of the different clients we have for F-Droid? Besides official, tried droidify, neo store and yesterday f droid classic (which I like it a lot). Any other recommendations?

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[โ€“] fossisfun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why does it exist

As far as I understand it, it has been created to port the official client over to a newer target SDK and to ship those changes quicker to the end-user before all features of the main client have been ported to the newer target SDK. One of the reasons stated was having an official F-Droid client as quickly as possible that installs without a warning message.

It seems to be unclear if F-Droid Basic as an F-Droid client with a reduced feature set will continue to exist after the main client has been modernised.

also, why not use Droid-ify or similar

Last time I looked only Neo Store supported automatic unattended app updates. As soon as F-Droid Basic came out, I switched to it from Neo Store. I didn't really like Neo Store's UI and in general I prefer official apps from projects rather than third-party apps.

it has way more repos built in? Molly, Session, IzzyOnDroid, Newpipe, etc are defaults in droid-ify even if they are not enabled by default

I only use the F-Droid repo, so that's not a selling point for me. ;)

[โ€“] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 1 points 1 year ago

I know droid-ify will install updates without the prompt once you tap install, but you may be right as i dont recall if it will actually do the download itself or if it makes the user do it.