There was once a time where I thought living with apps from only F-Droid was impossible.
Now, F-Droid is my only app store, and I only use Aurora Store for banking apps (and even then, I prefer to do banking on desktop).
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2023
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I recently switched to a phone with only microG installed, absolutely 0 Google services.
It works insanely well nowadays.
Is that possible on stock rom? What are you running?
I don't think it's possible to get rid of everything in the stock ROM.
I usually install LineageOS on all my phones but I'm on /e/OS right now because Lineage is not available yet.
This is exactly what I am doing.
I am very grateful to the foss community that this is possible.
Just started doing exactly this recently. Aurora fills the gaps for the stuff that I need without the play store.
I got late to the party, I still use the Google Play Store, but I find some neat apps with Fdroid from time to time, and I was like "hey this isn't that bad" I feel weird to have spend so much time looking for individual APK files ngl.
Obligatory droid-ify plug (Material UI client)
Yes! It's much nicer than fdroid.
Not only nicer looking, but comes preinstalled with multiple repos
Installed it, and uninstalled regulär fdroid itself
Fdroid basic is more stable
Yeah I always look for apps on fdroid first if I need something. It doesn't have everything but a lot of the time there are great FOSS apps available.
I also love that you can filter apps for different criteria such as privacy, close source dependencies etc.
It's a great project. Reminds me I should tip them some for their great work.
I always look for apps on fdroid first if I need something
Me too, and if it's not there then I recently discovered Aurora Store which let's you download from Google Play anonymously and is itself available on F-Droid.
Reminds me I should tip them
Nice try, Philip J. Fry!
How's the Aurora Store working right now? Last time I used it, anonymous accounts started getting rate-limited pretty severly, rendering it quite painful to use
The latest versions of Aurora store have a setting to automatically search in the browser which evades the playstore-side rate limiting. It's a little annoying, but that's on playstore, not aurora.
Made me exhale audibly through my nostrils.
Also add IzzyOnDroid for newer packages
Do you know the proper url please? I've just searched, and there are a few different results.
Aaaand use Droid-ify for easier automatic updates with a prettier interface!
If you are not already using it, https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium, it's updated and improved frequently
'Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source.'
Currently supported App sources:
Open Source - General: GitHub GitLab Codeberg F-Droid Third Party F-Droid Repos IzzyOnDroid SourceForge SourceHut Other - General: APKPure Aptoide Uptodown APKMirror (Track-Only) Huawei AppGallery Jenkins Jobs Open Source - App-Specific: Mullvad Signal VLC Other - App-Specific: Telegram App Steam Mobile Apps Neutron Code "HTML" (Fallback): Any other URL that returns an HTML page with links to APK files
Great app! I've been using it for years and it just gets better and better over time
What Post is that??
Onion is down
I posted this not to long ago