spiritedpause@lemmy-u6723.vm.elestio.app to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org · 1 year agoWhy are there so few open source weather apps for iOS, compared to the very many that are on Android?message-squaremessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhy are there so few open source weather apps for iOS, compared to the very many that are on Android?spiritedpause@lemmy-u6723.vm.elestio.app to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org · 1 year agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-squarejet@hackertalks.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoOn apple/iOS - The app store, you have to pay a annual fee to be a registered developer. On android you have f-droid, fully open source, no fees.
minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoYou can side-load an app from anywhere so you don’t even need storefronts like f-droid, you can just have the APKs as releases right with wherever you’re hosting the source code!
On apple/iOS - The app store, you have to pay a annual fee to be a registered developer.
On android you have f-droid, fully open source, no fees.
You can side-load an app from anywhere so you don’t even need storefronts like f-droid, you can just have the APKs as releases right with wherever you’re hosting the source code!