Has anyone tried accrescent? What’s your favorite?

  • N4CHEM@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I have found Obtainium to be quite unreliable and am surprised by how many people recommend it.

    In my case it frequently fails to detect which version I have installed, fails to detect there is a new version, and even tells me an app is outdated when the version I have installed is higher than what it believes is the highest version. I currently use it only for 2 apps: Uazo’s Chromium build (which is not on F-Droid) and Obtainium itself.

    In case an app is on F-Droid I personally see no reason to get/update it through Obtainium.

    • maroudava@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Strange. I haven’t encountered any major quirks with it in my use. I’ve had app gave me trouble but it was because I had installed a pre-release version of the app by mistake, but once I installed the correct version, it was fine.

      I will say one criticism of Obtanium is that it’s easy to get rate limited if you use a VPN, which is really annoying.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, that is just my experience and, of course, will vary with others depending on which apps you track with Obtainium, and maybe on which ROM you run.

        I still find a bit odd how some people want to avoid F-Droid, being a reputable source that checks for anti-features and builds from source to make sure the final apk matches with the published code.

        However, I am happy that there are several options to install and update FOSS apps in Android and derived ROMs: we can all choose what we prefer and have other options as backup.