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.
I would also love to see a non Google play version of Sync.
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 as we could pay him directly instead of a middle-man.
Is google play required for the app to function, or would sideloading the apk from a mirror site work?
Is the code open? Because if it is someone can produce the fdroid version...
It's not
I've been asking for this for a while.
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 :)