| ▲ | mattmaroon 2 days ago |
| All 6 people who used Amazon app store on a non-Fire tablet must be very upset! |
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| ▲ | bambax 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| I'm one of them. DJI "pro" remotes are Android devices that for some reason are completely un-googled but can run the Amazon app store; if you want to run, say, Litchy on such a device (an alternative to DJI Fly app), Amazon is (was) the only option. Now there appears to be no option left. |
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| ▲ | darkwater 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Is sideloading possible? | | |
| ▲ | bambax 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Yes, kind of, but then maps don't work, and the main function of the app is to program drone missions on a map... (To be fair, it's possible to program missions on the web and synchronize the account with the app to send the missions on the device; but having no map at all on the device is still a big problem.) |
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| ▲ | gruez 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Use Aurora store? | |
| ▲ | mattmaroon 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Oh wow! Hopefully DJI will address this. | |
| ▲ | rerdavies 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Now all we need to do is find the OTHER five people. :-P | |
| ▲ | starfox64_ 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Couldn't people move over to another app store like F-Droid? | | |
| ▲ | alok-g 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | As far as I know: Most app available on Amazon's app store are already available via Google Play Store anyways. Rather, most developers have deserted the Amazon's store and the versions available there are outdated by years. I noted that Apps Amazon released for their own external or internal events like AWS re:Invent were only available via Google's Play Store and not Amazon's own. The challenge is that many apps on Amazon's app store are tied to the app store. I once tried disabling Amazon's app store app, and noted that the apps installed stopped working (until the app store was enabled again). My immediate conclusion was that I would not want to rely on these apps or Amazon's app store. The developers may not have any incentive to update their apps versions on Amazon's store to remove the dependence on the latter, and nor they may have any to allow the paid users just install those apps from Google's play store without paying afresh. | |
| ▲ | nguyenkien 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | F-Droid only accept opensource app. | | |
| ▲ | arielcostas 2 days ago | parent [-] | | You can host your own repo (or someone else can) and just add it to the app | | |
| ▲ | jeroenhd 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Adding a new source for every app becomes tiresome, especially when switching devices. I do see potential for a closed source repo managed like an app store, but adding a repo for every app adds unnecessary security risks (as the app specific repo can contain any number of apps). | | |
| ▲ | mdaniel 2 days ago | parent [-] | | > adding a repo for every app adds unnecessary security risks Could you speak more to your security concerns about adding repos? To the very best of my knowledge it doesn't auto-download from all the repos, that would be crazy, and it for sure doesn't auto-install from them |
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| ▲ | anticensor 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Hmm, maybe someone could start a F-Droid repository that accepts nonfree apps from everyone. |
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| ▲ | eek2121 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They used to give away premium apps like Epic does on PC, so even I have used them. |
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| ▲ | matt_heimer a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It wasn't just devices running Android natively, if you wanted to run Android apps on Windows you might have used the Amazon Appstore with the Windows Subsystem for Android which Microsoft is discontinuing. It is likely that Microsoft's decision lead to this. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/android/wsa/ |
