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!Obtainium Icon Obtainium
Get Android app updates straight from the source.
Obtainium allows you to install and update apps directly from their releases pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available.
More info:
- Obtainium Wiki (repository)
- Deep Links - link straight to an import, or add a badge to your own project
- Obtainium 101 - Tutorial video
- "Verified Apps" - App verification tool (recommended, integrates with Obtainium)
- apps.obtainium.imranr.dev - Crowdsourced app configurations (repository)
- Side Of Burritos - You should use this instead of F-Droid | How to use app RSS feed - Original motivation for this app
- Website (repository)
Currently supported App sources:
- Open Source - General:
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Forgejo (Codeberg)
- F-Droid
- Third Party F-Droid Repos
- IzzyOnDroid
- SourceHut
- Other - General:
- APKPure
- Aptoide
- Uptodown
- itch.io
- Huawei AppGallery
- Tencent App Store
- vivo App Store (CN)
- RuStore
- Farsroid
- Samsung Galaxy Store
- LiteAPKs
- APK4Free
- CoolApk
- SourceForge
- Jenkins Jobs
- APKMirror (Track-Only)
- RockMods (Track-Only)
- Other - App-Specific:
- Telegram App
- Neutron Code
- Direct APK Link
- "HTML" (Fallback): Any other URL that returns an HTML page with links to APK files
Finding App Configurations
You can find crowdsourced app configurations at apps.obtainium.imranr.dev.
If you can't find the configuration for an app you want, feel free to leave a request on the issues page.
Or, contribute some configurations to the website by creating a PR at this repo.
Installation
Verification info:
- Package name: dev.imranr.obtainium
- SHA-256 hash of signing certificate:
text
B3:53:60:1F:6A:1D:5F:D6:60:3A:E2:F5:0B:E8:0C:F3:01:36:7B:86:B6:AB:8B:1F:66:24:3D:A9:6C:D5:73:62
- Note: The above signature is also valid for the F-Droid flavour of Obtainium, thanks to reproducible builds.
- PGP Public Key (to verify APK hashes)
Contributing / Developing
Please see the pertinent documentation, on contributing and the developer guide (architecture description).
Limitations
- For some sources, data is gathered using Web scraping and can easily break due to changes in website design. In such cases, more reliable methods may be unavailable.
Screenshots
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| | | |News & coverage (14)
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