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  • Baŝto@discuss.tchncs.detoF-Droid@lemmy.mlIssues with neo store
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    11 months ago

    Apps have unique IDs like com.liftoffapp.liftoff and f-droid/play store don’t know who installed an app. They just show you all installed apps that are in their repos and look for updates for them. If they wouldn’t handle it like that, you wouldn’t get any updates if you installed an .apk manually. If an .apk gets installed and there is already an app with that ID, it replaces it and that’s how updates work. So if they both do an update, the first update will replace the old version and the second update will replace the first.

    In the past apps from play store and from official f-droid repo wouldn’t replace each other without further user confirmation and deletion of user data. I don’t know if it’s still handled like that. F-Droid builds and signs packages on it’s own, which results in a signature key mismatch. It’s different for repos like IzzyOnDroid which just distribute official builds and therefore are signed with the same key. Though IzzyOnDroid has a key mismatch with F-Droid.

    Usually a different key means that somebody modified the app and you don’t want an malicious app to be blindly installed or have access to the app’s user data. But F-Droid have no other choice when they build the packages themselves.













  • Shattered Pixel Dungeon

    Roguelite, fork of Pixel Dungeon with more content and balancing. Has 5 regions, each has four normal levels and a boss level. Has some metagame stuff when you finish the game once. Those two characteristics make it only a roguelite.

    Anuto TD

    Handdrawn Tower Defense.

    Mindustry

    Build big industries/factories. Similar to factorio, but havier focus on the tower defense part. Maps are a lot smaller, enemies come in waves with a countdown and therefore a lot easier than infinite factorio.

    Unciv

    Sid Meier’s Civilization IV remake and therefore a 4X turn-based strategy game

    Vector Pinball

    Simple pinball game with multiple tables

    Mindustry and Unciv have quite some mods available, mod browsers are integrated.

    Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Mindustry and Unciv also have desktop versions. For Shattered that makes it easier to play with mouse/keyboard/gamepad on android and layout should also work with bigger/external screens. Don’t know if that’s also true for the other two.