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ImranR98 / Obtainium

Get Android app updates straight from the source.
https://obtainium.imranr.dev
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Add Aptoide as a source #843

Closed dalitz-bazalgette closed 1 year ago

dalitz-bazalgette commented 1 year ago

I think this would be valuable to add as a source because it seems to have a lot of apps that aren't on APKPure.

Aptoide's own client is open source. Apparently they've been around in some form since 2009.

In 2017, Waseda University in Tokyo published a study comparing the security of third party Android marketplaces. Aptoide was marked highest in their security index.

ImranR98 commented 1 year ago

Thanks for pointing out that their client is open source. I previously closed #552 assuming they wouldn't have any public API we could use. It's not meant to be public (no public docs), but their own API the client uses doesn't seem to be protected in any way.

Example: curl https://ws2.aptoide.com/api/7/getApp/app_id/"$(curl -s https://whatsapp.en.aptoide.com/app | grep -Eo '"app":{"id":[0-9]+' | head -1 | tail -c +13)"

ImranR98 commented 1 year ago

https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/releases/tag/v0.14.7-beta

jonnyhotchkiss commented 11 months ago

So we can use apktoid (source) without using the app, using obtainium?! And obtainium will know which apps it has installed? APKToid and HM don't seem to show (or know) what's installed (by them), I see F-Droid has this feature, and is working...

Which leads me to follow-up question: so we can use F-Droid source(s) without that app? Obtainium requires root, right? 👍

ImranR98 commented 11 months ago

@jonnyhotchkiss Obtainium doesn't require root and doesn't know what apps it installed.