The installation was very easy! It's very greatful that my data doesn't send to Google any more.

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[–] 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Seconded on Obtainium. Basically any FOSS app is gonna have a repo there with releases regardless, and you can always just use an f-droid repository if they only publish releases there.

Plus, way easier to export a list of installed apps to restore them at a later date!

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    and you can always just use an f-droid repository if they only publish releases there.

    So Obtainium users can install F-Droid apps through Obtainium?

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Yep! It's not the same experience as F-Droid (e.g. it's not gonna be you scrolling through a list of apps, picking the one you want, and hitting install. Obtainium is more of a "get the URL to where the app's releases are, paste it in here, add it, then hit install, plus you might have to do a little config so it selects the right release if there are multiple", but once it's set up, it's set up.

    I fully replaced the F-Droid app with Obtainium for actually installing and updating apps, but I still keep the F-Droid app around just because I can go on there, search up apps, do a little browsing, then take the app I want and put it in Obtainium.

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