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Installing F-Droid on Nokia 6
Jul 1, 2018 onI had to buy a new phone recently for reasons. I decided to stay on
Android partly because of the apps I’m already using and depending
on. Many of them I install from F-Droid, and
AFAIK most are only available there. As F-Droid is not available on
the Google Play Store, an initial “bootstrapping” is
needed. Typically, you download the .apk file from the F-Droid site
and install from the file manager.
However, there was apparently no way to install the .apk file from
the file manager that came with the phone, so I didn’t know what to
do. I looked for the relevant options trying to find the right switch
to make it possible, but I didn’t find anything. I tried to look for
solutions on the internet but again nothing. After several
attempts I figured there must be some application on the Google Play
Store that would allow you to install .apk files, and I was
right. The problem was, all applications I could see were full of ads
and I’m guessing they would leak a lot of information about the
phone and its user.
After a while, though, I found one that seemed to do what I wanted
without displaying ads and (hopefully) not spying on you. It’s called
App Installer
and it’s made by a certain Eugen C. It was simple to use (it just
finds all .apks you have downloaded and presents them so you can
choose which one to install) and it worked like a charm. After that I
could finally start installing the applications I wanted from the
F-Droid store.