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Re:F-Droid: Android FOSS app store by doppio19 on Saturday October 21, 2023 @02:33PM (#37969341)
Sorry for the naïve question, but why would I need this when most apps are distributed on Google Play? Are a lot of FOSS developers publishing on F-Droid instead of Google Play because of disagreements about Google's TOS?
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Re:F-Droid: Android FOSS app store by carstenhag on Saturday October 21, 2023 @06:02PM (#37970878)
Some apps don't use Google services on the f-droid variant. I guess most are publishing on both.

Neither give you an easy time. Google wants regular work from a dev (updating target SDK, filling out forms on the Play Console). F-Droid sometimes just doesn't build the app for days. (For my app it took about 8 months to initially appear on f-droid due to some bug, but hey, at least there's real people to talk to :))

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