F-Droid: an alternative to Google Play

Posted Feb 9, 2018 9:47 UTC (Fri) by madhatter (subscriber, #4665)
In reply to: F-Droid: an alternative to Google Play by spaetz
Parent article: F-Droid: an alternative to Google Play

I agree with all of this (the new version is worse in many ways, the developers aren't interested in going back). I note that the client is not the project; I wonder how painful it would be to code a thinner and less-shiny app that allowed a more traditional experience of interacting with the repository.

F-Droid: an alternative to Google Play

Posted Feb 16, 2018 4:57 UTC (Fri) by Garak (guest, #99377) [Link]

A while back I ran across something on their website (issue tracker or forum or something) which suggested that while the current developers weren't interested in going back, they were entirely open to any interested contributors doing what you described for the specific purpose of maintaining support for more archaic and therefore resource-constrained phones. I suspect somebody will get to it soon enough. I too preferred the older UI but can understand how the newer one is more attrative to a wider userbase. There is a lot of room for improvement.

While this article seemed pretty thorough, one missing bit is how I think(?) the privilege extension thing doesn't actually work for newer android versions. From whatever text that stated that, I didn't get the impression there was a clear path forward on that. Though perhaps that is related to my not understanding the bit about per-ROM certificates (?as opposed to one fdroid certificate used by many roms??). Obviously if I'm running lineage 14.1 or aosp 15 I can't imagine there is a real problem other than the requisite amount of elbow grease.