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by mod50ack 862 days ago
Lineage is great. One thing I wish we had, though, is a repo (F-Droid?) where you could download individual Lineage apps for use on non-Lineage Android.
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I've never used Lineage, but this is part of my question.

Can you use the ordinary app store to download apps as you can on a normal Android phone? Or do you need to do some shuffle of downloading them on a PC and transferring some kind of apk file to install it on the phone manually.

Do most apps work 'out of the box', or are there incompatibilities?

Google Play works if present, as do apps installed from it.

Some people prefer to exclude it for privacy reasons. I don't know if the official Lineage builds include it, as I am one such person, but it's available here: https://opengapps.org/

LineageOS recommends "MindTheGapps": https://wiki.lineageos.org/gapps/

OpenGapps stopped being updated some time ago and doesn't support newer Android versions.