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Implements support for waydroid in vso, this includes creating and deleting a waydroid container, as well as using fdroid repositories to install and search for applications.

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is huge! Just integrating F-Droid into their mix package manager is really badass.

Because the only good way to autoupdate the Android apps is from the PC host using waydroid app install. But F-Droids release images are totally random and also not as secure as using the API. Having repo support is waaay better.

[–] gonzoknowsdotcom1@monero.town 14 points 1 year ago

yes vanilla os 2.0 is huge and it's now on debian

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] rush@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh, obtainium doesn't verify signatures, it quite literally just scrapes sources.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When F-Droid builds direct from repo, signs and downloads to your phone, is it really that different from pulling the APK directly from the original repo?

[–] rush@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't sign it locally, it verifies the file you downloaded is already signed properly as it should be. This ensures the download isn't broken but also that the app is from who they claim it is.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But they need that because they are not the source, right? I feel like I'm missing something. Developer makes app on say, GitHub, how is going through F-Droid more trustworthy than the source?

[–] rush@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

because obtainium gets many apps directly from F-Droid.org too, not just github

And for those downloads, it does no verification

Not on GitHub either, where signatures are often attached together with the APK.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I follow now. Interesting. Perhaps this will become a PR if I ever have time.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Isnt that just a semi working feedreader for Github and other sources?

[–] redd@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it also follow the rule to not allow closed source API? (Notification,Location,..)

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 year ago

No, it gives the user the choice to pull whichever versions they want.

[–] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was curious about vanilla os but nows it's gonna be based on Debian and everything else I'm hears I kinda wanna switch to it for at least a month

[–] gonzoknowsdotcom1@monero.town 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Currently, been using it for the past year for work & school studies. Haven't had any big issues and far less when I used windows. Waiting for the Alpha to go to beta

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will they update GNOME like Ubuntu or will they wait for Debian to do it?

[–] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the road map they said they have gnome 44 for vanilla os 2.0

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Damn, it would be impressive if they accomplish that

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

This is a good change