I know its new, so am I to lemmy, but I was curious if there is any plans to release Sync Ultra outside of the Play Store.

The features sound awesome and want to support lemmy but not everyone has Google Play/iOS.

An option like threema has to buy a license key and download the .apk would be ideal and I’d be all aboard!

  • dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org
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    I feel like the pool of Lemmy users who are willing to use a closed source app but not use the play store has to be incredibly small.

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      I feel there are a lot of custom rom users here which don’t have play services built-in or its hard to implement

          • 🅰🅽🅶🆁🆈_🅼🅰🅿🅻🅴@sh.itjust.works
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            Choice and variety are important. If you only have one option/style, it will only take that one option failing for it to ruin things for everyone. What if Google Play somehow blocks an attack that foss-downloader apps are exposed to? What if the opposite happened?

            Also, not having choices means that the official “choice” being made might not always be to your liking.

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      I think the amount of non Play Store/App Store users overall is very small. With GraphineOS at least I can restrict the app.

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      But I bet we skew towards the “have considerable amounts of disposable income” of the economic spectrum.

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      Same here. The only answers I find are “it’s an android thing” which tells me absolutely nothing.

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      Yeah, makes sense. Even if there was an option to buy the lifetime and download I would. But its a valid point it’d be too easy for people to share it then.

      Thats why I think a licensing method would be best, like Threema has. You can download the app but can’t use it without a license key. Even still, it would be a lot of work.

      Just disappointed I can’t support it, but its also my decision to not have the play store 🤷

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    As someone with a Huawei device (no Google Play Services) I’d love that too.

    Ideally, a way of paying for a license key that unlocks all features would be the ideal. And maybe it’d be an advantage for the dev, we could pay him directly instead of a middle-man.

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    Infinity for lemmy has been released on izzyondroid/f-droid. Pretty much exactly like its reddit counterpart in features and was my preference over sync. Si im happy it works for lemmy :)

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      Play services and play store are required for purchases. You can try to sideload and see if that works.