Android users: do you install apps from alternate app stores?
I last had an android as my main driver in 2013 and used to run a jail broken OS, but have no idea how common installing non play store apps is these days
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@jesseplusplus I use f-droid for a few things. I don't know if you are aware, but you are asking this at an interesting time: https://keepandroidopen.org/
since a few months neo store
https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.machiav3lli.fdroid
before that fdroid
you only need to download once the store, but you know that i guess.
Almost all apps I use are from F-droid
@jesseplusplus been running Android since 2010. Been side loading apps pretty much the whole time. More frequently back in the days when custom ROMs were more widespread, but I still run a few on my current phone (pixel 9 pro). Some via F-Droid, others direct apk installs.
You can get lots of free and opensource apps via F-Droid. https://f-droid.org/en/
@jesseplusplus I use about 4 different app installing "stores" on my Android (its actually running GrapheneOS) and it works great
@jesseplusplus i have not tried it. I remember installing amazon's app store when it launched years and years ago. but didn't use that for more then a day or two.
@jesseplusplus fdroid is theonly store I use in my @e_mydata @murena phone