To each their own, but I find this decision really misguided.
It's her money, not mine, so whatever, but l do not expect her to turn a profit in, rather the opposite.
In my view, the cross section of "IfR" users and people willing to subscribe monthly is rather small (especially if the money mostly goes to reddit - assuming I could afford it, I, for instance, would rather fund an open system like Lemmy).
And if Apollo's dev Christian Selig decided that it wasn't worth it with an already established paying user base, who already has a strong culture of subscriptions and exaggerated pricings, and one of the highest volume of users, at what probably was the peak usage of the platform; I don't see how a small app like IfR can survive.
That, or Christian made a pretty expensive mistake...
I think the best thing to do if you want to continue using Infinity would be to just compile your own APK with your own API key.
I've never used android studio before but didnt take me very long to work out how, and it all seems to be working.
You only need to change a couple of settings and about 3 lines of code.
You don't even need android studio. You can edit the files with anything and just compile the apk with any valid android compiler. But yeah it ain't that hard. The question remains: do you want to be using reddit? ;)
Someone made a Google collab notebook that takes your API keys as an input, takes care of the compilation and offers you a download link to get your apk. Zero knowledge needed!
I did try that method but for some reason it wouldn't install. Seemed like it was conflicting with an already installed app (had already uninstalled it) so by using Android studio I could change the package name at the same time.
Also did see some people mention it might be a bad idea to give your API key out to randos on the internet which is fair enough.
Giving out such an API key is essentially what the infinity dev does, up until the 1st of July at least.
Reviewing the colab's code, I did not find anything susceptible to leak your API key (or other info) to the author.
However, I have also seen users offering to build apks for others (which implies giving out API keys on top of installing software from a random guy). That seems indeed very dangerous.
Yea thats true, and tbf I did give them mine and i've not had my identity stolen as of yet lol.
The main reason I did mine manually was that I was getting a conflict error when installing so i wanted to change the package name too.
I ended up basicly using the Collab thing as a guide on what to change so it did come in handy.
How do we get an API key, does it cost money, and where can we find the notebook?
This is what I and many others used who have zero knowledge. It's very simple. Check it out here In the Collab link it gives you the link to get the key.