Unobtanium supports more sources, has more features, and is actively developed.<p><a href="https://obtainium.imranr.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://obtainium.imranr.dev/</a><p><a href="https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium">https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium</a>
You know what I really want? No more "app stores" or "app managers". Just let me download and run an application, like on every non-mobile computer in the world.<p>I hate the constant updates. I hate the end-of-life OS forks. I hate the limited programming languages. I hate that there's this complicated gatekeeping, where you have to jump through a bunch of extra hoops to install a program if it hasn't been blessed by some specific official organization. And I hate that all the mobile phones come locked up (if not to a mobile carrier, then to an operating system, only able to be maintained by a specific 3rd party, and the device becomes a useless brick once that specific 3rd party stops supporting that specific operating system on that specific device).<p>Regular computers work much better. A common architecture. Run any OS built for that common architecture. Run any program that has executable machine code for that common architecture. You can install a different OS when the old one is unsupported. You can keep using the hardware until the hardware dies, not just until the company who made it drops that hardware's support. Common hardware components so every OS doesn't have to support every different individual model of computer. No gatekeeping of the programs you can install. No extra hoops. Just a machine that can run whatever you want it to.<p>I just want a computer in my pocket. I don't want all the extra bullshit.
Hey all, I'm the developer of this app.<p>This was literally my first ever Flutter app and it honestly sucks.<p>I made it before I found out that Obtainium exists.<p>Even so, I'm glad I made it, because I learnt a lot while making it.<p>It is unlikely that it will be finished or even worked on any time soon.
But what about <a href="https://f-droid.org/en/" rel="nofollow">https://f-droid.org/en/</a> ? It do the same but have a nice gui =)
man, i feel this big time - all i want is to just run what i want on my phone without all the locked down nonsense, feels like every device now is less mine than ever tbh. ever wonder who actually gains the most from all this locking down? is it just security or something else too?