[Android][App] Obtainium. Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source. - eviltoast

Awesome app. It is somehow not listed on android-foss list so maybe someone didn’t know about it.

Obtainium allows you to install and update Open-Source Apps directly from their releases pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available.

GitHub page: Link.

  • nodiet@feddit.deEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    I thought about that argument as I was posting my reply. The thing is that with fdroid you only have to trust one instance. With something like obtainium, you are trusting every single developer whose app you are downloading. Don’t get me wrong, ultimately I am not that worried either and am using the izzyondroid repo as well which has the same issue as obtainium. But it is good to have systems in place to prevent abuse even if that abuse is unlikely.

    • csm10495@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Aren’t you trusting every app developer since it still compiles their code? I mean unless you actively look through all the code in each app you use.

      • nodiet@feddit.deEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Sure, at one point you have to trust something or someone unless you want to read all source code for all apps you use. Thankfully there are quite a few people out there who do basically that and report issues they find, but ultimately, reading all source code and compiling everything by yourself would be the only way to be safe.