I do wish to avoid GAFAM as much as possible and degoogle my android. Now, all the apps are not available on f-droid. APK Pure and APK Mirror do have those apps, but they’re not getting installed into my device after downloading. What could be the reason ?
The amount of repos available to add to F-Droid makes the app selection pretty deep in my experience. Here’s a few:
Izzy Droid - https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo
Guardian Project - https://guardianproject.info/fdroid/repo
Ironfox - https://fdroid.ironfoxoss.org/fdroid/repo
Futo - https://app.futo.org/fdroid/repo
Fedilab - https://fdroid.fedilab.app/repo
Molly - https://molly.im/fdroid/repo
Briar - https://briarproject.org/fdroid/repo
Anonymous - https://anonymous.gratis/fdroid/repo
There’s a bunch more repos you can find online, but I’ve always enjoyed having these enabled. Additionally, there’s the Aurora Store from F-Droid, which allows anonymous access to the Play Store. There’s also Obtainium, which will directly access developer’s GitHub/GitLab/Codeberg/SourceHut repos as well.
Does aurora support split apk yet?
Last I checked it was impossible to install basically any app due to that.I have been installing and updating apps without issue for the last two weeks, so either they do, or I am somehow luckily only using apps that are not distributed split apk.
Seems to work now, I guess they really did it.
Good list, but you missed the most important one: https://idlefantasy.tristinbaker.xyz/fdroid/repo
I find the apps from playstore extremely bloated.
I would be very very mindful about downloading APKs from websites.
What app are you looking for?
Which apps in particular are you looking for? Aurora Store let’s you access the catalog from Google Play, Obtanium can be used to get Apps from Github, developer homepage etc.
The apps that l’m looking for cannot be found through Aurora stores.
Railone and Aamar Kolkata Metro
Chances are the apps you’re trying to install rely on google shit to work, like their “secure bs” or whatever. If that’s the case you’ll need to find alternative apps (in the stores mentioned in this thread) if you degoogle your phone.
I found F-droid annoying after a while, because it frequently lost connection or smth and I got massive toast messages about it covering my screen. I switched to Neo Store, with Obtainium for the couple of apps that are only on Github.
Yeah I get that randomly too and its always gone before I can read it
Is your question about app discovery or about installing via apkpure, etc?
About installing the app.
https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.imranr.obtainium.fdroid
And
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aurora.store for apps from the the Play store when/if you must use them.
Do you have an example of an app that’s not installing? Which Android OS version are you at?
Railone.
