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
Yeah, but I feel like those people are mostly going to gravitate towards FOSS clients
If they are decent, there is a limit of pain each Foss person can take
But I bet we skew towards the "have considerable amounts of disposable income" of the economic spectrum.
"I want to take the Google route"
- Dev on discord.
What does that even mean?
That means he won't release the app outside of the playstore.
I would also love to see a non Google play version of Sync.
I've been asking for this for a while.
In app purchases without Google Play is a pain. I understand why the paid versions are Google Play only. It sucks, but FOSS Android doesn't have a good model for paid apps that doesn't immediately lead to mass piracy.
In my opinion it'd be ethical to crack the software with revanced as long as you keep paying for your subscription (or if you buy lifetime), that'd be my solution. That's illegal (and, if you're not paying, unethical) though, requires some reverse engineering skills, and may require some trickery to keep the cloud features working.
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 ๐คท
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.
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 :)
Sweet, thanks for the info I'll check it out!
Aurora Store would probably be your best bet, honestly.
But you can't buy Sync Ultra without google services
Isn't that just a different front for the playstore?
It is, it's not the same as fdroid
Is the code open? Because if it is someone can produce the fdroid version...
It's not