I was thinking, there is some comparative of the different clients we have for F-Droid? Besides official, tried droidify, neo store and yesterday f droid classic (which I like it a lot). Any other recommendations?

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    1 year ago

    I dont really get the differences. I know basic is using a higher sdk and allows unattended updates but otherwise why does it exist. What cant the official client do that it can. Why not replace the official client with basic if they are trying to get rid of technical debt. They never even really gave it an announcement best as i can tell. We got an announcement about some PWA thing for browsing repos on a browser, but i think thats unrelated

    Edit: also, why not use Droid-ify or similar since it has way more repos built in? Molly, Session, IzzyOnDroid, Newpipe, etc are defaults in droid-ify even if they are not enabled by default

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      1 year ago

      I agree, its strange they didn’t just update the original F-Droid client and instead made an entire separate app.

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        I just added 6 repos to fdroid basic to get everything i needed. Droid-ify had 5 of those as defaults that i could have just enabled. I think the only reason the 6th is not in droid-ify is because cake wallet just announced their repo a few days ago

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        1 year ago

        I know droid-ify will install updates without the prompt once you tap install, but you may be right as i dont recall if it will actually do the download itself or if it makes the user do it.