I've been silent lately, very busy cookin' the next gen of Zapstore. Major building blocks to something that makes even more sense in the world of Android apps, and among many other things making it even simpler for developers to publish. More soon!

Radar indexed on Zapstore!

Zapstore

Radar — Zapstore

Radar is a private messenger with built-in Bitcoin payments over the Lightning Network. It is a fork of Signal-Android and keeps Signal

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Publishing your app to Accrescent in two simple steps: 1) Login with Github exclusively 2) Figure that it's invite only 🤡

Thinking of discontinuing the indexer and just keep developer-signed apps (as every other Nostr client) View quoted note →

Signal started marking their releases as "pre-release" on Github:

GitHub

Releases · signalapp/Signal-Android

A private messenger for Android. Contribute to signalapp/Signal-Android development by creating an account on GitHub.

Reason why those are not showing up as latest on Zapstore. We used to fetch pre-releases, at that time a Termux pre-release screwed up lots of setups. Pulling pre-releases then needs to be evaluated on a per-project basis, this is hard.

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Current estimate of active Android smartphone users worldwide: 3.9 billion About 5 million use custom ROMs (LineageOS, GrapheneOS, crDroid and others) That is 0.13% 🤯

Dear @GrapheneOS, does an app store where users choose their curators (essential for censorship-resistance) violate your security model? 👀 > App stores are supposed to be a single source of apps. You should look at the device management APIs where app stores must be a single source of apps in order to be permitted when disallowing unknown app sources and only permitting first party or specific known app sources.

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Why does an app store using multiple sources violate the security model? - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

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Zapstore

Bro — Zapstore

Bro is an open peer-to-peer application protocol that lets anyone pay bills using Bitcoin over the Lightning Network. Initially available for PIX a...

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On Zapstore now! (They will be self-publishing soon 🤞) View quoted note →

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