Today is a very sad day. Apparently, cake wallet has made the asenine decision to abandon their fdroid repository for this other app store called accrescent Which is a centralized store very focused on security but has a central point of failure and can pull apps at any time they wish for any reason or no reason at all or succumb to government take down requests.
Edit: A direct quote from a chat from tux on the cake wallet team.
“Maybe I didn’t make it clear enough the reason we abandoned it was because it stopped letting us update. It broke, and we haven’t been able to fix it and don’t care enough too”
Edit 2: Some more color was given on the issue in today’s Monerotopia episode and apparently it has something to do with a flutter update that could not be avoided but caused breaking issues. I will say that I hope they can re-establish the repository in the future.
I’ve had problems with obtainium. Primarily, if there’s multiple apps in a repository, it doesn’t do a good job of distinguishing ones from the other. And quite frankly, it looks like crap compared to an app store. So the functionality just isn’t as nice. With a proper app store you get the description and a nice install button and pictures and all that other good stuff where otherwise with obtainium you just get the download itself. It’s just not nearly as user friendly, or at least it was not the last time I used it. It was a pain in the ass, although maybe it has improved since then. It also had some accessibility issues which made it harder for me to use it because I rely on a screen reader a lot.