Consider publishing Obtanium on Accrescent

[duck09]

Describe the feature

Accrescent is a private and secure Android app store built with modern features in mind. It aims to provide a developer-friendly platform and pleasant user experience while enforcing modern security and privacy practices and offering robust validity guarantees for installed apps.

Documentation: https://accrescent.app/docs/guide/getting-started/index.html

Describe alternatives you've considered (if applicable) Downloading from the available sources.

Additional context Accrescent is still in early alpha.

[ImranR98]

Looking through their requirements, I'm not sure Obtainium would satisfy this one: https://accrescent.app/docs/guide/appendix/requirements.html#self-updaters

[ghost]

I agree, that we would love to see Obtainium on Accrescent! Maybe you ask why we want this or what Benefits it would have for us as Users.

The Benefits for me would be a few, like these:

• I could get Obtainium from Accrescent, which I already installed and use to download Apps. It would save me time and would make it a lot easier for me. I prefer Accrescent over Github, because on Accrescent the App get's checked before it comes to the Store and the Apps are always checked, like for example the SDK of Apps, if there is Malware and more.

• Apps on Github are not checked, but on Accrescent they are going trough Filters always. And I think that would make it more secure. And since Accrescent is on a good way in terms of Security and Privacy, I think that it will be really good in the Future. And I think that Apps which value Security and Privacy should make it available there. Because Accrescent have the same values in Security and Privacy.

• I really hope that you could make that possible, because it would have great Benefits for us as Users. And think like that: If we support them by adding Apps, we help them to grow from Alpha to Stable.

[DwainZwerg]

If I'm right, the option for Obtainium to update itself is disabled in the reproducible F-Droid version, isn't it?

[ghost]

Looking through their requirements, I'm not sure Obtainium would satisfy this one: https://accrescent.app/docs/guide/appendix/requirements.html#self-updaters

Couldn't the fdroid-release APK be published?

[ghost]

Important to note that the developer of Accrescent is currently working on polishing the developer experience so that developers are not disincentivised by the current lack of polish or any drastic changes that are made due to the pre-alpha nature of Obtanium.

This is their priority with Accrescent at the moment rather than having a large collection of apps. Also, not all developers can publish an app on Accrescent as you currently need to apply and then be put on a whitelist.

If @ImranR98 is okay with this and has no problem potentially having to keep up with Accrescent developer changes then this can go ahead. Otherwise, it would be better to wait until Accrescent reaches a stable release.

[randomwithnoname]

This would be really helpful, especially for GrapheneOS users where Accrescent is mirrored in their App Store. I do also wonder whether it would be allowed on Accrescent though. Alternatively, Obtainium could be mirrored in the GrapheneOS App Store.

[randomwithnoname]

I asked in the Accrescent Matrix room if Obtainium would be allowed and explained that there's already the F-Droid variant which isn't preset to update itself. The response from the lead developer was "Third-party app sources aren't currently allowed within Accrescent"

This issue can be closed and reopened if anything changes.

[ghost]

The response from the lead developer was "Third-party app sources aren't currently allowed within Accrescent"

[ghost]

I hope that it will come one day to Accrescent, when it can update itself.

[randomwithnoname]

I hope that it will come one day to Accrescent, when it can update itself.

That doesn't seem to be the issue. Obtainium already has a variant that doesn't update itself for release on F-Droid. I'll ping @lberrymage so he can give a better response.

[ghost]

I hope that it will come one day to Accrescent, when it can update itself.

That doesn't seem to be the issue. Obtainium already has a variant that doesn't update itself for release on F-Droid. I'll ping @lberrymage so he can give a better response.

Oh okay. I will wait then to the response.

[Geblaat]

Another ping for @lberrymage

[lberrymage]

Accrescent doesn't currently plan on hosting other app sources, so Obtainium wouldn't be allowed even if its self-update functionality was disabled.

[Geblaat]

Accrescent doesn't currently plan on hosting other app sources, so Obtainium wouldn't be allowed even if its self-update functionality was disabled.

Thanks for the reply!