Add option to prefer commercial apps in App Lounge

• /e/ version: 1.20
• Device model(s): Murena Fairphone 4

Summary

If an app is both on the F-Droid store and the Google Play Store, there should be a way to install the Google Play version instead of the F-Droid version.

Description

What is the current behavior?

If there is an app on both F-Droid and the Google Play Store, the F-Droid version is automatically installed.

What is the improved behavior?

I would like to be able to have an opt-in setting that allows me to install the Google Play Store version instead of the F-Droid version. This could be a general setting (so it applies to all F-Droid apps) or a per-app setting, so that I can select the Google Play Store version on the page of the specific app I want to install.

What does it bring?

Some apps like Jellyfin have a Google Play Store version and an F-Droid version. The Google Play Store version contains proprietary blobs which allows support for Chromecast whereas the F-Droid version doesn't.

There are other apps which have the same thing, where they have no proprietary dependencies on the F-Droid version, but these dependencies are included in the Google Play Store version. This sometimes leads to a situation where certain functionality is disabled in the F-Droid version but enabled in the Google Play Store version.

Mock-ups

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Examples

Users will be able to choose if they want to install an app from the Google Play Store or from F-Droid, if the app is present in both sources.

Validation

N/A