[Replicant] Replicant General Questions

[Nick]

Quoth Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli:
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2018 13:53:27 -0800
> "M. P." <wintermute24x7 at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> > What apps can replicant run?
> 
> > Does it only run Fdroid apps or is is it open to other apps? I have a
> > samsung  Galaxy S8 Edge.
> F-droid available in Replicant images. F-droid also has the ability to
> use more than one repository. 
> 
> Applications can also be installed manually trough adb or by
> downloading the apk and installing it by clicking on it.
> When you do that if the setting allowing third party applications is
> not enabled, it will make you go in security to enable it.
> Once this is done you need to find again the application and click on
> it to install it, or if you don't find it, redownload it and install
> it by clicking on the downloaded file again.
> This procedure is also valid to install f-droid on most/all android
> devices that way.

Further to this, an easy way to install other apps that aren't 
available in f-droid is to download an app called "Yalp Store" from 
f-droid. That is a simple and nice interface to the "Google Play 
Store", so you can browse and download anything from there, without 
needing to log in or identify yourself. There will be some 
applications there that won't work on Replicant, because they depend 
on non-free libraries, but some certainly do.

Nick