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New Advertisement and Internet connection permissions for Simple SMS Messenger on Google Play Store... (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 7 months ago (3 children)

A personal recommendation is to use Droidify, it's just a great F-droid front-end.

You can download the APK here: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.looker.droidify/

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Droidify is the best! Best performance and UI of all compatible clients, and even handles 3rd repos that wont load on others.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Hey thanks for this! I used f droid for a while but was always meh on the UI and how clunky it is. I used this for a bit and I already like it waaaay more. Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

When I last used it it was somehow unstable. Maybe that has changed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have used it for maybe a year and I never had any problems. Then again, I'm hardly a power user, so it makes sense that other people might have different experiences. :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I really like that they add more repos you just need to enable. Number 1 reason to use it, as F-Droid will never add those for obvious reasons.

Some that I cant live without

Izzyondroid
Guardian Project
Collabora office
signal foss twinhelix
molly
futo
simplex chat
Cryptomator
Mobilsicher (proprietary German apps that are core infrastructure. They ask those developers if they can get the APKs)
(Bitwarden) (dont use it)
Julians Repo: nice to get GrapheneOS app updates, but you should install their appstore instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ijusto use Obtanium.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tried it, it was at least back then not scaleable. Not every Dev publishes precompiled APKs, that is actually not something regular because F-Droid and IzzyOnDroid exist.

So in the end I had 8 or more of my favourite Apps still F-Droid only, and when adding all those sources some barely worked and in the end Obtainium didnt load anymore.

Does it autoremove APK files? Otherwise its just a fancy Feed Reader, I use Feeder for the few Apps that are Git* releases only

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes it autoremoves the apks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Thats pretty good then

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

My experience too, but I switched back and it's far better now.