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How to get ProtonMail on FDroid? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I used to get Proton Mail from the IzzyOnDroid Fdroid repo. But now it's not in his repo anymore. Afaik this was mirroring the github release of Proton Mail at Proton's Github account

Why is Izzy not hosting the apk anymore?? Is there another F-Droid repo that is mirroring this?

And no don't tell me to use Obtanium, i don't wanna use yet another app updater.

Also I want to say that Proton's absolute refusal to put their apps on a non-Google platform despite their non-stop blog posts of how evil Google is, is downright HILARIOUS at this point 😂🤣

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[–] online@programming.dev 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's probably because Proton changed the repo. I was grabbing their release via Obtainium and noticed the version I had was way older than the version on the Play Store. Had to update my Obtainium entry for ProtonMail to the new repo: https://github.com/ProtonMail/android-mail

[–] Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah okay, i heard they did an overhaul but didnt know this was the reason for Izzy not having it.

hope he adds it again.

[–] online@programming.dev 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You probably need to make a request to Izzy. From what I remember he has requirements, such as max app size, which makes me wonder if maybe the ProtonMail app just became too big for him to build and host.

Here are the requirements: https://gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/wikis/Inclusion%20Policy