F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.
I got late to the party, I still use the Google Play Store, but I find some neat apps with Fdroid from time to time, and I was like "hey this isn't that bad" I feel weird to have spend so much time looking for individual APK files ngl.
I always look for apps on fdroid first if I need something
Me too, and if it's not there then I recently discovered Aurora Store which let's you download from Google Play anonymously and is itself available on F-Droid.
How's the Aurora Store working right now? Last time I used it, anonymous accounts started getting rate-limited pretty severly, rendering it quite painful to use
'Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source.'
Currently supported App sources:
Open Source - General:
GitHub
GitLab
Codeberg
F-Droid
Third Party F-Droid Repos
IzzyOnDroid
SourceForge
SourceHut
Other - General:
APKPure
Aptoide
Uptodown
APKMirror (Track-Only)
Huawei AppGallery
Jenkins Jobs
Open Source - App-Specific:
Mullvad
Signal
VLC
Other - App-Specific:
Telegram App
Steam Mobile Apps
Neutron Code
"HTML" (Fallback): Any other URL that returns an HTML page with links to APK files
Uses your phone's spare computational power to help scientists working on everything from cancer research to finding pulsars and black holes. You choose which projects to contribute to. Phones are more compute-per-watt efficient than most computers, and every little bit helps!
Can't be published in Google Play store due to their ToS (it downloads and executes code from outside of its own APK which is not allowed)
Make sure to limit CPU usage to keep temps down. If your phone can't get rid of heat easily, this app is not for you.
Seems like awful use of your phone battery. Things like this are much better suited to desktop computers than anything that runs off battery. Even if they are more efficient as you say, they wear out much faster, leading to e-waste.
By default it only runs when battery is full and plugged into a charger. If you are keeping temps low there is no battery damage. I have ran this for years on several different phones.