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F-Droid builds irregularly, which can be problematic when there is an important update.
Therefore you are advised to switch to the GitHub release.
The F-Droid version is built from the same source code, but signed differently.
This means that all features are available in the F-Droid version too,
except for using the Gmail quick setup wizard because Google approved (and allows) one app signature only.
For all other email providers, OAuth access is only available in Play Store versions and Github releases,
as the email providers only permit the use of OAuth for official builds.
OAuth access is available only for Play Store and Github releases
because email providers permitted the use of OAuth for these releases only.
The responsible for a release, for the F-Droid build this is F-Droid, needs to ask for OAuth permissions.
Note that you'll need to uninstall the F-Droid build first before you can install a GitHub release
because Android refuses to install the same app with a different signature for security reasons.
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* The Play store version does not support Android Auto, see [this FAQ](#user-content-faq165) for more information
* The Play store version does not support [Gravatars](https://gravatar.com/), see [here](https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-5-0-fairemail-fully-featured-open-source-privacy-oriented-email-app.3824168/post-85226179) for the reason
* The Play store version does not support Amazon devices with Android 5 Lollipop because there are critical bugs in this Android version of Amazon
* The GitHub version will check for [updates on GitHub](https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/releases)
* The GitHub version will check for [updates on GitHub](https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/releases) and is updated more frequently
* The GitHub version has some different links and some options have a different default values (more geared to advanced users)
* The F-Droid build does not support OAuth, see [this FAQ](#user-content-faq147) about why not
* The F-Droid build does not include [Google Play Billing](https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/integrate), so Play store purchases cannot be reused
* The F-Droid build is supported only if the version number is the same as the the version number of the latest GitHub version, see also [this FAQ](#user-content-faq147)