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Where does App-Lounge get the apps from? Does it still use CleanApk?

I remember that there was an announcement that the apps will be downloades from the official google play store.
Nevertheless, I noticed that Aurora-Store often shows updates much earlier than App-lounge. Even if I explicitely search for updates. And I am not talking about one or two apps but sometimes even 10+.
This suggests that they use different sources and considering that it used CleanApk before, I suspect it still does…

Can someone (maybe from the official team) elaborate the situation?

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Play Store apps in a similar fashion like Aurora directly from play store.
F-Droid apps are from CleanAPK.
PWA, I don’t know where and how.

Official team is only, I think, Manoj who takes care of things. You can notify him with @ if my answer is not sufficient.

Here is documentation on it:
https://doc.e.foundation/support-topics/app_lounge#fetching-open-source-applications-from-f-droid-and-get-rid-off-cleanapk

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You can check for yourself: App Lounge is open source, and the code is available at e / os / App Lounge · GitLab

Not sure why you would get F-Droid apps from (the completely anonymous and un-transparent) cleanapk.org, rather than direct from F-Droid. Best to install the F-Droid app and get apps and updates direct from there.

That feature has been on the Roadmap / ToDo list for a long time. Clearly not a high priority

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Agree, have too many reliability issues with App Lounge presently. I’m running Aurora Store and F-Droid instead. Though if they get the reliability issues sorted out with App Lounge, I could go back to it. The idea is great, but the execution is lacking.

Developers don’t visit the forum. Access to the “team” is through Github bug reports. We can solve a lot of user problems as a community, but changes to software have to go through bug reports.