Obtainium app
Obtainium is System tool that is open source under the GPL-3.0-only license.Obtanium allows you to install and update Open-Source Apps directly from their releases pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available.
Currently supported App sources:
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Codeberg
- F-Droid
- IzzyOnDroid
- Mullvad
- Signal
- SourceForge
- Third Party F-Droid Repos (any URLs ending with
/fdroid/
, where
can be anything - most oftenrepo
) - Steam
- "HTML" (Fallback; any other URL that returns an HTML page with links to APK files (if multiple, the last file alphabetically is picked))
Limitations:
- App installs happen asynchronously and the success/failure of an install cannot be determined directly. This results in install statuses and versions sometimes being out of sync with the OS until the next launch or until the problem is manually corrected.
- Auto (unattended) updates are unsupported due to a lack of any capable Flutter plugin.
- For some sources, data is gathered using Web scraping and can easily break due to changes in website design. In such cases, more reliable methods may be unavailable.