Hey all, was just looking at Firefox’s new terms of service for their binaries (yuck!) and learned about a new app store called Accrescent.

https://accrescent.app/ (currently down for me)

To me it seems like the major difference is that with F-droid you are trusting the F-droid developers to build the binary correctly from the developers’ source, where with Accrescent, you are trusting that the developers’ binary is really built from their source code.

Then there are other side discussions about build reproducibility. How much does that matter? And some developers don’t like the F-droid build system?

Anyway just wondering what you all think about App Stores on Android Systems?

  • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I use F-droid. I don’t check hash keys but having that kind reassurance is definitely better than trusting F-droid blindly.

    I have had issues F-droid uploads before.

    So Accrescent has only a limited number of apps and only installs on Android 10 and up.

    If you want something with less limits, you can use Obtanium with AppVerifier, or APKMirror, which also has the hash keys available.