Why so many? Is there hidden gold in making F-Droid clients? Because they can? Was there a contest? Other than F-Droid, the obvious original and best, which other clients are runners up? Why didn’t they just submit improvements for the original? Isn’t it a waste of developer time having so many? Will there be more? So many questions, so little time. LOL
Very helpful. The tables give impressive presentation (and overload) of data! The results are much better than search in F-Droid client. It doesn’t explain “why” but it does give a lot of useful comparisons.
On Descriptions, it would help (a user) to see a key for columns (in human language) and color/darkness at the bottom. And maybe an equation for the “scores” in each row.
On Permissions, same comment (except no “scores”), although it’s clear enough. A sort by a permissions score would also be good.
System Extension for F-Droid maybe shouldn’t be “green” with no grey (no permissions), because of how it must be installed to work.
I’ll go submit pull requests for app_match.R real soon now. Or not.
Why didn’t they just submit improvements for the original?
Diversifying the marketplace of FOSS alternatives for Android would be great but what could happen is a loss of focus on the integrity of one project, F-Droid.
Of course but regardless of why the result will be the same. It would be a lot easier to fly under the radar with a bug (exploit) if a lot of our users are using 2 or 3 clients.
F-Droid is already a bit of stretch in terms of safety…