Re:Asian and African super apps are following the playbook W...
by swiley on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @08:25AM
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>f-droid is a horrible experience though IMO
This has very little to do with what I said (arguing some library doesn’t make things easier) but ok.
>I go searching and I can't figure out what some of the apps even "DO",
It’s been a couple years but I don’t remember the play store being different.
>Here is this app, you need to install these other things too to make it work
Like the Termux API app needing termux? That’s the only one I remember being like that. Most of the apps I used were self contained. Do you have an example?
From memory F-droid was much better than google play except for the lower selection but it has been a while.
This has very little to do with what I said (arguing some library doesn’t make things easier) but ok.
>I go searching and I can't figure out what some of the apps even "DO",
It’s been a couple years but I don’t remember the play store being different.
>Here is this app, you need to install these other things too to make it work
Like the Termux API app needing termux? That’s the only one I remember being like that. Most of the apps I used were self contained. Do you have an example?
From memory F-droid was much better than google play except for the lower selection but it has been a while.