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if you have f droid installed then

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you've likely seen this warning the

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first time you opened it i would just

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tap ok continue on my way and not look

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into it any further until i started

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seeing some tweets and articles about

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issues with f droid for reference the

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information i'm discussing today came

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from this article which i'll be

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discussing a little bit more in depth in

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the future and i will also link it down

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below if you're interested in reading it

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so the initial issue with f droid lies

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with the sdk that it uses sdk stands for

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software development kit and it's a

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collection of software used to build

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apps on a platform the android sdk is

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comprised of different api versions and

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a higher api level means you can make

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use of more modern features each new

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version brings privacy and security

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improvements api level 31 means that you

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can make use of all modern features

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available on android 12. now that brings

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us back to f droid which targets api

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level 25 which was built for android 7.1

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and why you see that warning when you

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initially open it did you ever wonder

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why f droid doesn't support auto updates

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it's because they use an api level

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that's almost six years old and they

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can't make use of all the modern

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features of android 12. luckily there's

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an app called droidify that makes use of

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newer api versions which allows for more

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automated updates seamless automatic

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updates will be available in the next

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release security and privacy

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improvements and they also have a clean

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looking ui that makes use of the

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material theme which i know some of you

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really like so this is for you while

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there are other issues with the f droid

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repository i'll be covering that in a

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future video so if you already have f

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droid installed which i'm assuming you

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do go ahead and select f droid

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select the green search button

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type in droidify

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select that

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press install

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install

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[Music]

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once that finishes

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can wait for it to show up on our home

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screen select

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droidify now the first thing you'll

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notice is that there's no warning that

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this was built for an older version of

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android

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the second thing you'll notice is the

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beautiful material themed ui you're also

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going to notice when using the app that

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repositories sync much quicker than they

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did in f droid which is another great

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time saving feature

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and so once the repository has finished

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syncing you'll start seeing all the apps

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show up androidify will know which apps

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you have installed in your phone so

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that'll take care of all the updates

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already there's no need to reinstall the

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apps or anything like that another great

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feature it has is that it already has a

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list of third-party repositories you

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might want to use so let's say that you

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use bromide as your browser on your

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device you click the vertical three dots

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in the upper right hand corner select

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repositories

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we have a huge list here but for the

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example i'm just going to select bromine

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once that finishes click back

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and you can now search for bromide and

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you'll see that show up the last thing

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you'll want to do is swipe up go to

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wherever you have f droid installed

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long press on it click app info

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select uninstall click ok

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and now you're good to go so as i

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mentioned earlier there are other issues

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with the f droid repository that i'll be

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discussing in a future video and i'll

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also be demonstrating another method to

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download apps that you use without

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having to depend on f droid or droidify