Comment on New To Android? What Apps to Choose?
BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 2 months ago
What I do is I have droidify (fdroid client) with fdroid, izzyonandroid and few more repos enabled and I browse the list frequently. If I find something cool I might keep it. I try to avoid anything from google play in general.
If I want something specific (apart from searchijg online), I mighr just search the term I want on droidify, install a few apps, try them and keep the one I like.
Was using F-droid for the longest time as primary app store (where I could).
This comment inspired me to swap to droidify though. A month-ish in and I’m super pleased with everything since I swapped.
Just wanted to tag in with my own personal support for this recommendation.
Yeah, I too was using fdroid for a long time, but I think there was a bug (possibly fixed now) that didnt seem to delete installed apks and I had to manually delete the app cache or data I think.
I found droidify and looks much better (unless you like fdroid’s ui), so I stayed with it. I have it as ~my main app store too:)
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
So there’s a bunch of useful stuff FOSS stuff not on fdroid repo?
BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Yeah, I think fdroid is more strict about the apps they include and I think they might do some extra tests (hence why fdroid apps have different signature from git repos of the apps).
Please search it yourself, I don’t remember much to help you.
Here’s izzy’s site: apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/info
PS. You might see Izzy in various github app repos talking with developers asking to import their apps to the izzy repo
notanapple@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Izzy takes apks directly from devs repos iirc Fdroid builds everything themselves so its kinda like the debian repos on linux