Sorry if it sounds a dumb question but I always thought using the official playstore that comes pre-installed is the safest so everything related to F-Droid is new to me. Did anyone had apprehension on installing F-Droid when you had bare to none knowledge how it works? I like to be cautious and on the page it has a Instructions to verify the download page and it only tells how to check from Linux but not from Android, what am I missing here?
They just didn’t document how to do it on Android.
Using Play is probably the least safe way to install apps, which has been recently shown to have plenty of malicious apps.
Edit: They documented what it typically looks like on Linux. To document how to do it elsewhere would require recommending an app to do it with.
Would you trust that recommendation?