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.

  • SatyrSack@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    F-Droid installs an APK that F-Droid compiled. Obtainium installs an APK that the app developer themselves compiled. I’m not sure what you’re getting at.

    • everett@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Malicious APKs, built by the developer themselves, not matching their public source code.

      • bluejay@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Which developer?

        E: Lol @ the ninja edit.

        That’s hardly a meaningful advantage for f-droid and the whole man in the middle risk you’re exposing yourself to there. If you don’t trust the developer to do the bare minimum of providing a release that matches source then why are you even installing their app? Satyr’s response about developers getting compromised has way more weight in that conversation, but still falls short IMO.

        Making sure the apk matches public source and running it through VT aren’t going to catch a malicious apk that has the nasty bits buried in various commits but checks out in VT and matches the public source code. Sure, it’ll burn them as a developer if/when they get caught, but how often does the community truly do code reviews on one-off Android apps? Not often enough to catch that kinda thing before it spreads without getting insanely lucky.