I was thinking, there is some comparative of the different clients we have for F-Droid? Besides official, tried droidify, neo store and yesterday f droid classic (which I like it a lot). Any other recommendations?
I use droid-ify. I tried NeoStore, I like the UI more buy I find it a bit too unstable. I also use obtainium for some fast evolving projects or stuff not on f-droid repositories. Never heard of f droid classic, will give a try.
Is with the old ui
My recommendation is F-Droid Basic. It’s a more modern official client that supports automatic unattended updates on Android 12 and newer.
I dont really get the differences. I know basic is using a higher sdk and allows unattended updates but otherwise why does it exist. What cant the official client do that it can. Why not replace the official client with basic if they are trying to get rid of technical debt. They never even really gave it an announcement best as i can tell. We got an announcement about some PWA thing for browsing repos on a browser, but i think thats unrelated
Edit: also, why not use Droid-ify or similar since it has way more repos built in? Molly, Session, IzzyOnDroid, Newpipe, etc are defaults in droid-ify even if they are not enabled by default
I agree, its strange they didn’t just update the original F-Droid client and instead made an entire separate app.
I just added 6 repos to fdroid basic to get everything i needed. Droid-ify had 5 of those as defaults that i could have just enabled. I think the only reason the 6th is not in droid-ify is because cake wallet just announced their repo a few days ago
why does it exist
As far as I understand it, it has been created to port the official client over to a newer target SDK and to ship those changes quicker to the end-user before all features of the main client have been ported to the newer target SDK. One of the reasons stated was having an official F-Droid client as quickly as possible that installs without a warning message.
It seems to be unclear if F-Droid Basic as an F-Droid client with a reduced feature set will continue to exist after the main client has been modernised.
also, why not use Droid-ify or similar
Last time I looked only Neo Store supported automatic unattended app updates. As soon as F-Droid Basic came out, I switched to it from Neo Store. I didn’t really like Neo Store’s UI and in general I prefer official apps from projects rather than third-party apps.
it has way more repos built in? Molly, Session, IzzyOnDroid, Newpipe, etc are defaults in droid-ify even if they are not enabled by default
I only use the F-Droid repo, so that’s not a selling point for me. ;)
I know droid-ify will install updates without the prompt once you tap install, but you may be right as i dont recall if it will actually do the download itself or if it makes the user do it.
Particularly I’m using a device with android oreo
The official never worked good to me…
