Welcome brothers and sisters, I really like foss apps and I cant imagine android without Fdroid, but lately I installed Fdroid on my new phone and play protect say - this app can be dangerous so he stopped installing apk. Of course I downloaded fdroid client from official site https://f-droid.org/ so it cant be something dirty there, anyway maybe play protect is supersensitive or something? or maybe I should use other client like droid-ify? - https://github.com/Droid-ify/client/releases or simply dont care and turn off play protect because its normal thing how he “fight” with fdroid. Thank you for helping with my paranoia.
Play Protect is meant to protect Google from people installing apps outside of the Play Store.
Use droid-ify it has better interface than fdroid official app and is always up to date. Never had any problem with play protect
This doesn’t answer OP’s question. Even when you install droid-ify you get the message about play protect.
But yes, droid-ify (which I also use) is kilometers better than f-droid. Also neo store is better.
Really? I use MicroG and Play Store with Play Protect enabled, I installed Droid-ify from GitHub and never got any information from Protect, maybe it’s because I dont use real Pkay Services idk.
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Just tried installing it and play protect said nothing.
The Play Protect warning typically has an option to install anyway. Take another look.
It’s because the sdk of the fdroid app is outdated. I think they’re in the process of updating it
So any app that got the APK ,or your browser need permission to install. This can be removed afterwards. At least I think so I don’t use stock. But they must have removed the blanket 3rd party permissions right?
Also F-droid is not very good as an app since it targets android 5 or something. I use neo store.
So I updated Android, did factory reset, downloaded Fdroid again and this time everything was clean I mean without warnings. Simply Samsung… Thanks so much for helping Friends, remember to stay always Foss.
The Android ecosystem is very sensitive to these things. If you try to install any APK that’s not from the Play store you’ll get a similar warning. Especially for apps that want to be able to install other apps. You just have to attest that after it is good. And then everything should be fine. Once you give afterwards the proper permissions.
Dude no no you won’t. You absolutely won’t get a warning for any APK you install. You actually won’t get a warning for most. As I have said on my other comment the fdroid gets a warning because of an SDK issue. And it’s known https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/2605
If you don’t know something don’t comment. Stop spreading misinformation
I thought I knew something, thank you for the correction.
This is what I see when I try to install fdroid APK directly. Android 13
That’s something else. That just means that whatever app you used to open and install the apk doesn’t have the permission to do so yet.
Actually seems like in this case the global “allow unknown sources” setting is still disabled on your phone, not the app’s permission. But you will see this dialogue if the app you’re installing from doesn’t have permission as well.
This has not been my experience. I always turn on Play Protect but almost never recieve warnings about APKs. I install plenty of apps outside of the Play Store, even some sketchy ones. The only one that ever gave me a Play Protect warning is Lucky Patcher.
