First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

Re:First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store by jraph on Saturday May 23, 2020 @08:11AM (#23282274)

This is not a great substitute for installing through an app store because the app will not update automatically.

This is, however, a great thing to have.

A better substitute would be using F-Droid. By the way, some free software apps are not gratis on the Play Store but are on F-Droid.

It can still be confusing to manage two app stores for some people, while installing an app from a downloaded executable is usual on Windows, so Krita probably did the right thing.

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Re:First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store by StavrosK on Saturday May 23, 2020 @08:39AM (#23282449)

What you say echoes my experience, I see a lot of apps on the Play store say "pay 1.99 here or get it for free on F-Droid", which is fair. I usually even pay the money even though I have F-Droid installed, just to support the dev.

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Re:First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store by noisem4ker on Saturday May 23, 2020 @08:32AM (#23282405)

Good question: why is Krita not on F-Droid? Probably a matter of time and effort, not a technical reason. I guess they sensibly got into the most visible marketplaces first.

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Re:First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store by hellozee on Saturday May 23, 2020 @08:51AM (#23282505)

Exactly, it is on our plans, would take a bit of time.

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