OpenAPK repository - any good?

decadentist

Does anybody here use OpenAPK? I'm wondering if it's better than F-Droid?

trilogy6202

Better in what way?

Oggyo

I'm not familiar with OpenAPK, so after taking a look at the main page selected Fennec (Firefox Android).
I know that Fennec releases (usually) are built by F-Droid, so I was interested in how OpenAPK provides the app.
Then a quick look in their FAQ shows:

Q: How do we obtain the apps?

A: At OpenAPK, we curate a comprehensive collection of open-source apps sourced directly from trusted platforms like GitHub and F-Droid. Our aim is to make these applications easily accessible while maintaining transparency and authenticity. Each app listed on OpenAPK includes a link to its official repository, ensuring users can download the latest and previous version straight from the original source.

I guess the above partially answers your question.

GrapheneOS

Oggyo That's a strange description they're providing since the main F-Droid repository is not an original source of apps but rather third party builds of apps with significant delays, sketchy changes, problematic outdated build environment / dependencies and poorly secured infrastructure. Not really clear what it's accomplishing if it's mirroring those.

decadentist

So it's just a page linking APK repos? But fennec is just patching. The building of the APK is done by F-Droid iirc. There are many projects like this. So in that case OpenAPK builds them? Will look into it. Just wanted to put this nifty site onto GOS forum.