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Awesome app. It is somehow not listed on android-foss list so maybe someone didn't know about it.
Obtainium allows you to install and update Open-Source Apps directly from their releases pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available.
GitHub page: Link.
I don't want to watch the video on "why this app is better than fdroid". So, does anyone care to write an TL;DR?
For me it's best for the apps where people don't upload to Fdroid but I trust them
It's not better than F-Droid, it's useful for apps that aren't on F-Droid tho
Only reason I installed it is for it's ability to use GitHub releases as a source and notify me if there are updates. As far as I'm aware you have to use f-droid repositories with f-droid -- but it's been a long time since I had f-droid installed.
You get app updates directly from the devs, without f-droid acting as a middle man.
I don't even know why that video is there. At first glance, you might think it's a video explaining how Obtainium works. But it's actually a video about how to manually set up an RSS feed of the apps you use from GitHub. This video is just what had inspired the developer to make Obtainium.
It can replace fdroid with caveats. Direct download from gitlab/hub/codeberg/fdroid official with searching. Other git/fdroid repos with manual web addy entry. Good for stuff both on and off fdroid.