[Nexus Player General] tearlach2:
F-droid is compatable as are most of it's apps

Fdroid works fine, if you don't know what F-Droid is it is a FOSS repository of android apps.

Importantly, most of the apps will install, whether they work is trial and error, there are thousands.

f-droid.org

the latest official build is .76 it has a decently easy to use interface, not eyecandy and using a mouse will make navigaton through the menus easier. It has a problem with lolipop, you have to delete the primary repo in the settings and retype it in for it to refresh the list. There is a .77 version floating around that fixes this but for some reason they haven't linked it easily yet so either find the .77 version somewhere on the internet it may even be hiding somewhere on the fdroid forums or get the .76 version and go into setttings delete the primary repo and then click the + button and type it back in and hit refresh and it will download the contents of the repo.

** I couple of notes. Give FDroid itself root access, as it is installing apps. Also, many apps will be greyed out because the dev hasn't listed lolipop support yet. However unlike the play store it will still show you all apps within the repo. I have found that even though apps are greyed out you can still install them a warning will pop up saying they aren't known to be compatible but that is only becasue of the manifest file within the APK not showing lolipop (whatever API version it is now) support, again it that doesn't matter over time more of the devs will list the API within their apks.

There are tons of apps here, including firefox, vlc, etc and many apps which are on the regular play store except they have the Google ad server crap ripped out in most cases and all are FOSS (Free and Open Source Software, spywhere possiblity is just as much of a problem as it is in any google store app, however since everything is FOSS nothing is easily hidden and there are people who are going over the source, and anything found to have spywhere and or tracking featrues is listed in red in the description and ends up not lasting long within that repository.

I found and tried many different UPNP players and stickmount type apps, many science programs you just have to go and look and see what there is and try it, I tried a few things some worked some didn't almoast everything installed and showed up in sideload. One nice feature is since it is it's own "strore" apps you install through it will show up for updates as they are released, however everytime you wish to update the repo you need to do the afore mentioned trick if using .76

A list of apps on FDroid which are NP compatible would greatly dwarf this posting's list as I've found just from my own experimenting, maybe its own post is in order.

Someone with more time than me could take the Fdroid source and make a repo of the apps listed within this post pretty easily, as Fdroid itsefl is GPLv3, and therefore make a centralized repo of apps for everyone with a NP so no more hunting all over the place for random APKs or installing them to one device to then have to pull the apk out of /sys and adb or wififileexplorer them over as I've had to do with many of the apps on this list, and as the repo is only useful to people with root it shouldn't get too much traffic, most NP owners probably don't hack them at all honestly.

Tons and tons of specialty and UP&P apps, file managers, music players, usb mouters etc.

Without installing Fdroid you can see all the apps in the repo here: f-droid.org/repository/browse