Comment on The state of Playstore

• gunpachi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You can go to their official website and download it - f-droid.org

  Personally I prefer to use fdroid through Droid-ify.

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  • CherenkovBlue@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks, I will give that a whirl. I remember about having to change some kind of setting - third party apps?

    (I could probably figure this out through some searching but I also want this for people who have no idea where to start.)

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• damnYouSun@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You need to install it?

  It won’t carry over because it’s not a local play app but you should be able to install it the same way you did on your old phone.

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  • CherenkovBlue@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m trying to document this for others who have no idea where to start when installing things not in the play store.

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    • null@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      To be fair, I’d wager the overlap between people that are on Lemmy, know what F-droid is, but wouldn’t think to just Google it is pretty low. Those people probably shouldn’t be messing around with sideloading and alternative app-stores anyways.

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      • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I dislike the “Why not just Google it?” argument because I’ve arrived at too many forum/reddit/stackoverflow posts that are the top Google result with comments on them saying: “This information is already on Google”

        I would love it if Lemmy could start to curate information so that instances start showing up in search results more.

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