Useful toolkit.
The application allows you to search, install and update software directly from the release page of this software in many sources. Why do you need it?
For example, you are using an open source application that for some reason is not available in F-Droid repositories. To update it, you need to find the release page of that application, for example, on GitHub, download and install the package.
This program will do it for you almost automatically. If the link to the release page is known - add it and use it. If it is not known - use keyword search, choose from the output, use it.
https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium
For some unknown reason this app. doesn’t work for me. When I try to update any apps it just error out trying to install it. The debug logs in the app is also not helpful
Are you trying to install an update from GitHub to F-Droid app? This will not work because F-Droid apps built with different signature. You should uninstall F-Droid app in order to install updates from GitHub or Play Store. Or you can add source from F-Droid to keep updating app from there.
Obtanium Is a God-Tier App
Can somebody share a list of apps which benefit from this? I hardly use Github and most of my apps come from Fdroid, or play store.
A lot of folks are using Openboard from f-droid which is no longer maintained, but there’s a fork here that’s still being developed, and has added some new features like theming.
To my mind its currently the best FOSS keyboard app, though that may change once florisboard eventually gets typing recommendations/auto correct implemented
What a life saver I gave up on Foss keyboards recently as I couldn’t get a proper multilingual typing but this fork has it.
Oh, I would definitely miss this app if it went away. I love it.
Yes, it’s pretty a neat appli 👍