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Last night Organic Maps was removed from the Play Store (feddit.it)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Last night Organic Maps was removed from the Play Store without any warnings or additional details due to "not meeting the requirements for the Family Program". Compared to Google Maps and other maps apps rated for 3+ age, there are no ads or in-app purchases in Organic Maps. We have asked for an appeal.

As a temporary workaround for the Google Play issue, you can install the new upcoming Google Play update from this link: https://cdn.organicmaps.app/apk/OrganicMaps-24081605-GooglePlay.apk

The Announcement on various Networks: Fosstodon Post
Twitter Post
Telegram Post

If you don't know what Organic Maps is, it is an alternative to OsmAnd and google maps, more info on the official site (link) and GitHub.

Maybe an error? Honestly this is a weird one. I hope we will learn more in the coming hours.

You can still get it on the other channels, like F-Droid or Obtainium. Still, we all know that not being on the Play Store is an heavy sentence for any Android app.

EDITs

Added F-Droid link.
Fixed Typo in the obtainium link.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 months ago (2 children)

All my homies search for apps first in F-Droid and only use google play if there is no other option.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Can you help a sister out and help me to start using fdroid? Do I just google it? Can I download the fdroid store from Google play store?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

You can't download it from the Google Play store. You'll have to download the .APK (application package, the installation file format for all Apps) from this url, there should be a tutorial to guide you further:

https://f-droid.org/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

https://f-droid.org/en/

there are other apps than can access F-droid and everyone will soon start replying saying why they think their choice is the only reasonable one and everything else is the worst thing ever, but the official one under that link should be enough to get you started.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The official store is fine, but I personally stopped using it after it constantly made problems and wasn't working properly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When was that?

The official F-Droid app had an issue with not deleting downloads on systems that didn't run it correctly in the background. That has been fixed some months ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't know how long it has been, but it has been some months.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

For me it got fixed in 1.20.0 from May 8, 2024.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I would recommend Droidify, which uses the fdroid store with a nicer UI.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

And that's wonderful!

But normies, sadly, do not