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I has come to my attention that some users have never heard of F-droid. F-droid is a free software app store for android (f-droid.org)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

Are they planning on modernizing the app for Material You? It feels out of place in my phone in 2023.

edit: all the people who suggested Droid-ify know what's up. Thanks, guys!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can use neostore or droid-ify for material fdroid

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Are they updated to use the new difference-based repository format?

EDIT: I was curious so I searched, they don't.

NeoStore, Droid-iFy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Not sure about neostore, but droid-ify takes like a half a second to fetch repo updates, and fdroid takes me like 10 seconds.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I have a lot of complaints about this too, but namely lack of seamless updates is baffling to me.

Luckily I found Droid-ify and solves both those problems. Also has the common repos frequently added, like IzzyOnDroid, easily pre-available to enabled in the settings.

This definitely replaced the archaeic fdroid client for me, they desperately need an overhaul as it's a terrible first impression.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

You can get Droidify and it provides a more pleasant visual experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I personally like it. However there are alternative apps

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The ui seems ok, but the search is so ridiculously bad I'd don't know how they did it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

God I hope not