Please consider adding your app to the SkyDroid appstore

[ghost]

Recent events have shown again that centralized appstore monopolies are really dangerous. It doesn't take more than a few clicks for a appstore company to remove a app from the app store, making it inaccessible to millions of users. This is a situation we should no longer accept. Free software should be available without a centralized gatekeeper in front of it. Why should any user trust Google more then the developer of the app?

There's a pretty new appstore for Android called SkyDroid that I see as a game-changer. It works completely without centralized servers. You can create a manifest with information about your app, links to screenshots and to the APK file. If you already distribute your APK using Github releases, you can simply point your SkyDroid manifest to the Github release.

The manifest needs to be uploaded to a decentralized network and then you link to it using a TXT DNS Record on your project website. It's really easy to setup. Once finished, users can find your app by searching for your website domain within the SkyDroid app and can download the APK directly from your servers or from your Github repository where you have the full control about.

SkyDroid removes legacy appstores as a single point of failure and gives control back to app developers just like it was years ago when Windows executables were distributed directly from project websites. SkyDroid however improves this concept by adding more security using checksums and delivering updates of all independent applications within one unified appstore.

Please consider adding your app to the SkyDroid appstore to ensure that it will always stay available for download in a simple and safe way.

Find out more about SkyDroid: https://skydroid.app Add you app using a CLI tool: https://skydroid.dev Try out the SkyDroid client yourself: https://get.skydroid.app

[uumas]

Why would this be better than just making an F-Droid repository?

[ghost]

It's not really better,just different.While F-Droid still works with the concept of big repositories that provide many apps at a single point,SkyDroid works with the concept of every developer providing a single app on their project site.It removes the repository owner as a single point of failure,but a own repository does so,too.The only real advantage in this situation is that it's easier to add: The user only needs to click a link to to.skydroid.app/[app domain here] and the SkyDroid app automatically opens and adds the new app without having to add a repository by hand.

[mlm-games]

I think this issue can be closed, since skydroid links have shut down