F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.
I always look for apps on fdroid first if I need something
Me too, and if it’s not there then I recently discovered Aurora Store which let’s you download from Google Play anonymously and is itself available on F-Droid.
How’s the Aurora Store working right now? Last time I used it, anonymous accounts started getting rate-limited pretty severly, rendering it quite painful to use
The latest versions of Aurora store have a setting to automatically search in the browser which evades the playstore-side rate limiting. It’s a little annoying, but that’s on playstore, not aurora.
@miss_brainfart@Blizzard It got better again! But I try to keep the apps from the Play Store at a minimum. If there is something similar available on F-Droid I get it from there.
Good to hear. I decided to become completely independant from the Play Store when that happened and actually managed to do it, but that’s obviously not an option for everyone.
Me too, and if it’s not there then I recently discovered Aurora Store which let’s you download from Google Play anonymously and is itself available on F-Droid.
Nice try, Philip J. Fry!
How’s the Aurora Store working right now? Last time I used it, anonymous accounts started getting rate-limited pretty severly, rendering it quite painful to use
The latest versions of Aurora store have a setting to automatically search in the browser which evades the playstore-side rate limiting. It’s a little annoying, but that’s on playstore, not aurora.
@miss_brainfart @Blizzard It got better again! But I try to keep the apps from the Play Store at a minimum. If there is something similar available on F-Droid I get it from there.
Good to hear. I decided to become completely independant from the Play Store when that happened and actually managed to do it, but that’s obviously not an option for everyone.
@miss_brainfart The only apps I get from the Play Store are banking apps and the default Google apps (Calendar, Contacts, Phone, SMS, …).
Made me exhale audibly through my nostrils.