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It's on f-droid rather than google play.

I think for the people interested in using Syncthing rather than Dropbox or Google's syncing option, that's not _that_ much of a problem.

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I'm always happy to see F-Droid exclusive apps. Gives Google less power over what they can do.

It's going to be much less of a problem for everyone, with these draconian Play policies, as I imagine more and more people will be installing F-droid.

F-Droid is not allowed if you use Google Advanced Security on your account. :( You have to side-load.

Hmm, what's GAS?

as far as i know f-droid is using the same mechanism to install apps as would any other app (though i remember reading that this wasn't always the case and that it switched to the standard mechanism at some point), like a filemanager. either an app can invoke the installation or it can't. there should be nothing in f-droid that would make installation any different.

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