The EU forces Apple to allow 3rd party app stores and browsers. Apple comes with a schema that costs more money to maintain 3rd party app stores than the older official app store version. I think Tim Cook is an absolute madman for Malicious compliance. 😂
I wanted a PDF reader for the holiday season (and beyond), so that I don't have to use a laptop to read the #Psion SIBO C SDK. So I've resurrected this old Fire 7 (Ford) tablet. 8GB flash is just enough!
Yesterday I discovered #Obtainium, an #Android app that can monitor various sources for APKs, including GitHub, GitLab, F-Droid, and others.
It's ideal for my #Ungoogled (and un-Amazoned) Fire 7 2015 tablet. NewPipe always delayed on F-Droid, so I've taken to manually installing it from GitHub. This now gives me an "app store" to do it.
I've also got it to pull Firefox Focus from GitHub, as there's no equivalent package in F-Droid.
Obtainium installs and updates Android Apps directly from their releases pages, with notifications for updates
This open-source and privacy-respecting app will install from a number of popular locations such as GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, SourceForge, Huawei AppGallery, APKPure, and many more.
The Obtainium app is ideal if you already avoid the ...continues
Obtanium
Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source.
Obtainium allows you to install and update Open-Source Apps directly from their releases pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available.