Aurora Store instead of F-Droid

Eirikr70

joshndroid

If you go into aurora store into the updates section and click and hold the particular app, you should be able to add that app to the 'blacklist' this will stop telling you that they have installed the app and that it needs to update. You can do the same in fdroid, I believe it's a little checkbox and I imagine similar in other fdroid apps. I did this and left obtanium as the only updater for those particular apps managed through obtanium, saves getting the notifications multiple times from all the other apps

italian_job

ah, ok but I don't have aurora store...
in drod-ify you can add ignore to a new version of an app but the few I can't add to Obtainium is because on github there are only source codes, others they have original repos on droid-ify
notifications are not a problem since I check updates manually
thanks to mention Obtainium, I was not knowing it, interesting app 😀

abcZ

[deleted] No, they're signed by the developer.

[deleted]

abcZ "With app signing by Play, Google manages and protects your app's signing key for you, and uses it to sign the optimized distribution APK files that are generated from your app collections."

abcZ

[deleted] So you're saying that some are effectively not signed?

mythodical

abcZ The way that reads, they are signed by Google on behalf of the developer using the developer's key.

[deleted]

abcZ Everything is written in the google blog. The developer signs the apk before sending it to the playstore, google resigns the apk and manages the security key

abcZ

mythodical Which is effectively NOT SIGNED. When you sign something with a key that you do not control, it is effectively unsigned.

abcZ

[deleted] If somebody besides you is "managing" your security key, then its pointless plain and simple. Its effectively NOT SIGNED because it can't be trusted.

[deleted]

This is the reason why I don't use the playstore and I would like very much if grapheneos would allow to use the bank applications without the playstore installation

lordiont

Obtainium is a great app and I use it myself as it fits my needs best. However, I've also used an RSS reader to manually track developers' repositories for updates, and download the versions directly from there as they become available. Furthermore, I want to mention the app OSS Release Tracker by @jroddev

Here's a thread where the dev explains the main differences between his app and Obtainium. I've tried OSS Release Tracker and found it to simple, minimalistic, and easy to use. IMHO it's best suited for those seeking a more minimal approach to downloading and updating apps; those who like the simplicity of using an RSS reader but wish it was more tailored to tracking new releases of apps will appreciate OSS Release Tracker.

newbie24689

GraphyGraphy

Secure!? If you are talking about uncompromised apps from the author, then I'd guess Googlestore is the place to go - understanding that the code/application could be hacked on the author's site after hand off to Google (e.g. source code says one thing, executable says something else). To guard against this, you could download the source, inspect it, and compile it yourself (e.g. As routinely done in "source distribution" used in some Linux distributions).

IIUC, F-droid inspects and re-compiles the source, removing nasties in the process.

Naturally there would be a delay in getting an F-droid app when compared with either Gstore or Github (or Aurora).
F-droid tweaked and then compiled it; of course they should sign it.

So if by Secure, you're referring to an app more likely to be Trojan free, I'd go with Fdroid, in spite of the signing criticism.

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