Allow download on F-Droid

Alligator

I refuse to use any Google services, which means I cannot download Kagi for Android. Can you please distribute the Kagi for Android app on F-Droid or allow for the direct download of the app?

I tried to suggest adding Kagi as a search engine choice in the Vanadium browser, but they declined because Kagi is not free.

Users could download it directly, or obtain it from the F-Droid app store. The F-Droid app store is preferred because it would allow for updates.

carl

Alligator I refuse to use any Google services, which means I cannot download Kagi for Android.

That's a self-inflicted problem.

But on the other hand, there are Android devices without Google Play Store, and they would benefit from having F-Droid distribution.

Thibaultmol

Because the app isn't open source, you won't ever find it on the actual fdroid repo. BUT kagi could be added to one of the 3rd party repositatories

Shortcut1

Thibaultmol Make it open source then 😄

There is a massive overlap between people who are into privacy, people who are into open source, and people who dont want to use Google as a search engine. Making all clients (or even better: the server too!) open source would be huge and would probably solidify a good chunk of users as well as attract new ones. Not to even mention the open source contributions of people who want to help improve Kagi in a more direct way

Temanor

You would be better off using Aurora Store. I doubt they are going to make it open source just to post it on the f-droid repo.

Thibaultmol

Temanor tbf... the app itself is a wrapper for various kagi websites. (no offense to the devs. I know it's more than that. I just mean that open sourcing the app wouldn't be too bad as to reveal things about how kagi works maybe)
So I wouldn't be suprised if they would open source the app at some point.

made https://kagifeedback.org/d/5626-open-source-the-mobile-app