[supergilbert]

Yes but none of my friends and family who own an Android device know about it.

I'm talking about a mainstream alternative android store. The design of f-droid is not appealing enough.

[pmlnr]

> I'm talking about a mainstream alternative android store. The design of f-droid is not appealing enough.

Make it mainstream. Spread the word. Install it on family devices.

How else you think mainstream will happen?

[moviuro]

1. F-Droid can't be published on Google Play Store, because they're an "alternative market".

2. Please, make it appealing for you and others! https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient

[zoobab]

FTP was fine. Plus it was easily mirrorable.

[trulyrandom]

F-Droid has a pretty strong foundation in my opinion. It just needs more resources to be able to publish app updates more quickly. It also needs a redesign, like you said, but I don't think there's a need to start from scratch

[BlueTemplar]

Yes, that would be nice, but at this point it would take a few billion to replicate all the functionality - who is going to be willing to pay for that and be still tied to Google? Might as well start a brand new smartphone/OS company...

[phoe-krk]

So do you mean a store run by a company that has the money and intent to promote such a store enough for everybody knows about it, e.g. Facebook, Amazon, or Microsoft?

I don't think this is a solution.

[stOneskull]

Amazon has an app store but it's just an inferior play store really. Nothing exclusive, I don't think, and just Amazon takes 30% instead.