Official Brave F-Droid repository now available

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Great news! Probably best if we make a new PR to include this change.

As a sidenote, do most folks here use Sandboxed Google Play or Obtainium to install Brave Browser on GOS?

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I just spotted this caveat? Even if you can call it that.

Can I use premium features such as Brave VPN + Firewall, Brave Leo or Brave Rewards without a Google account?

No. At the moment, these features require a Google account on Android.

Only a very few will miss those features if they’re installing the app through F-Droid anyways. I’ll consider that a plus for me though

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@KevPham I didn't know you could get it from Obtainium, I was getting it from Aurora. I know Sandboxed Google Play is recommended by GOS, but I no longer have a Google account, so 🤷. I'm glad I can get it now from F-Droid!

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I haven’t tried it myself yet. From my basic research, Obtainium requires some manual configuration for Brave.

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I used to get it with Obtainium but I had regular issues with updates that would just fail. It seemed that if I closed my phone while the update was happening, the update would always fail. So, I have been using Sandboxed Google Play instead with no issues. With this change, I will probably test this out.

Hahaha no way! I didn’t knew you could download it through Obtainium too lol, but having Brave now in F-Droid is a very big W mostly because Aurora is very buggy

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I tried obtainium using both the github repo and their website, but both ways took lots of manual configuring for the filters and it would bug out a ton, so I just resorted to using sandboxed google play instead.

I don’t use any of Brave’s addons like wallet, rewards, the vpn, or leo fwiw, although leo’s ai responses in the search results are far and away the most accurate and precise of any ai summaries i’ve encountered so far, aside fron gemma3.

Regular Sandboxed Google Play for me

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In the Obtainium app’s ā€œAdd Appā€ page, they have a link to crowd sourced app configurations that include Brave. I added Brave using that and haven’t needed to do any further configuration.

The website’s link is: https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev

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Obtainium for me.

I’m seeing lots of people here either didn’t know about installing Brave via Obtainium or it was buggy.

I did the following:

Add app.
I used this url GitHub - brave/brave-browser: Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.
Toggle on ā€œVerify the ā€˜latest’ tagā€

Not the best option to download apps btw. Those configs are crowdsourced, so there could be a chance of getting a fake download link when downloading apps like this.

Always verify the download link!

Wow, this is awesome. I’m thinking of uninstalling Brave and reinstalling the version from F-Droid if it doesn’t have those features embedded in the build. Would PG recommend we do that?

Obtanium, but it was quite a b#@!h to install.

I came across this though, and the problem was fixed.

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I use Obtainium to install Brave and the Beta version of it.

Wish i found this when i started to add apps to Obtainium, too useful.