I have been noticing that Google Play is overrun with adware, trialware, and freemium kinds of apps. Really hard to find FOSS and truly free apps.
Curious about best strategies to sort though Google Pay. I typically start with F-Droid and AlternativeTo to find apps then try to find them on Play.
Ideas?
Moonrise2473 ( @Moonrise2473@feddit.it ) 9•2 years agoadd izzyondroid repo to fdroid, there’s much more interesting stuff
6daemonbag ( @6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•2 years agoHow do you do that? I downloaded izzyondroid but not sure what adding the repo to fdroid means
JiminyCricketz ( @JiminyCricketz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 7•2 years agoIn f-droid settings under ‘Repositories’ you can add the izzyondroid repository url (just search for it online) this allows all the apps under it’s umbrella to be accessed through f-droid
sub_ubi ( @sub_ubi@lemmy.ml ) 2•2 years agoThank you. You have been gifted lemmy gold 🪙
Pantherina ( @Pantherina@feddit.de ) 3•2 years agoPoorly G-Droid is no longer developed but for discovery its still the best.
Try Droid-ify if you want something newer.
In this forum page are most stable F-Droid repos available
What are repos? Seperate servers for software. They contain binaries, prepackaged software.
You always need to trust the people packaging the software, as this is where opensource loses its relevance.