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F-Droid

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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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It feels completely different, yet very similar. I like it. Feels like the most modern app on my phone now.

Edit: I don't like the floating action button search but that's just my opinion. Maybe I just have to get used to it.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I like Droidify, also looks very modern.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Same. The UI seems very sensible n decently compact for me.

I think they're trying to add support for index V2. It'll be awesome when that gets implemented(as I use a 3G network).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Oh it looks nice. Glad to see more options for F-Droid

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Heh, I mean its more modern than the current F-Droid app and it is definitely and improvement, but it really looks like it was made by a back-end developer that used material 3. The spacing and sizing of items is all over the place and that makes it look kinda goofy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Can you say exactly where to improve it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Not the person you replied to, but to my eye it feels unnecessarily complicated and confusing. The organization of info could be simpler, and the card that pulls up partially in front of the list of entries seems unnecessarily confusing and always feels like it defies my expectations of how I should be able to interact with it.

Droid-ify has almost all of the same functionality and info displayed, but is an infinitely simpler layout, and a lot easier for me to parse. I don't have to spend time trying to interpret the ui, figure out what's where, and understand what I'm looking at

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Moving the sort and filter menu to the top header bar Moving the sideways tabs for app categories to the hamburger menu, that's what the icon suggests for me. Remove the app version from the app list, it just adds noise All the buttons on the app page are primary actions, they all have the same importance. For example, the favourite button is the same size and style as the launch button, in this case it could be a simple icon button to give the importance to the launch button. Also I think there is generally too much padding around the elements and that makes it look cluttered/busy when there is not much going on

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I liked the old one a lot more

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I prefer the old design