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1y ago

F-Droid 1.19.0 brings automatic background updates and a new and better workflow for adding repositories.

F-Droid (@fdroidorg@floss.social)

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Are there any repos worth adding?
- IzzyOnDroid
  \ BitWarden
  \ GuardianProject
  \ GuardianProject Wind Offline
  \ CollaboraOffice
  \ KDE Android Stable
  \ KDE Android Unstable
  \ Newpipe
  \ Cryptomator
  \ MicroG
  \ DivestOS
  \ Bromite
  \ Cromite (Bromite Fork with newer releases)
  
  Bromite is highly outdated. I strongly recommend either adding the Cromite repo, or the DivestOS repo for their Mull or Mulch.
  
  Thank-you for this.
  I've been using FDroid for some years but rarely see a list like this.
- Izzy, bitwarden, newpipe, collabora office
- The Izzy repo may be popular but with getting more than 1000 apps in that repo which are also in the main F-Droid repo I've been hesitant to add it. What happens when Izzy repo has a newer version than the F-Droid repo ? The main F-Droid repo goes for reproducible builds and checks for closed source software and more. Izzy repo downloads from the app upstream, does a malware check and that is all it seems.
  
  All F-Droid Clients won't install the IzzyOnDroid version if you have the F-Droid one installed already because the signatures won't match, it's a basic Android security feature.
  \ IzzyOnDroid is actually a bit stricter than that, see IzzySoft Fdroid Index Info & IzzySoft Fdroid Inclusion Policy.

I've been using Droidify. It supports background updates and has a nice UI.

It'll be nice if I can add an app to a wishlist.
- Why? All the apps are free, just download the apps you want immediately.
  
  I use my wishlists like bookmarks 😬
  
  Yes, just as @acetanilide said. I use it as a wishlist so I can check it out later when I have time.

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