this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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Liftoff!

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Since this app updates so often and it takes so long for app stores to have the latest update available, it would make sense to have a link to Obtainium right next to the links for F-Droid, Google Play, and the GitHub release page. Slide for Lemmy does something similar, though it is arguably more important there, as the app is not available on any store yet.

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

How long is the typical delay between update submitted and being pushed to users?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It depend, usually fdroid need 2-4 more days to push an update

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it even available on f-droid?

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

Not on the main F-Droid repo, but it is on IzzyOnDroid. Add this repo to your F-Droid client, and you will be able to search F-Droid to find Liftoff

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you, that worked fine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here is a previous thread on the subject of Obtainium that may answer your questions.

https://lemmy.one/post/392829

This particular question was answered about timely updates through Obtainium:

As for update notifications, you set the "Update Checking Interval" in the Obtainium settings (default is every 6 hours). So whenever a new APK gets added to an app's GitHub, Obtainium will notify you of it the next time it scans for updates.

Just last week, Obtainium gave me a Liftoff update, and when I checked the patch notes on GitHub, that update had been published literally an hour ago.