I used to have this issue, but 0.0.8 is now out. Obtanium pulls in that release just fine!

Try Obtainium, helps if an app isn’t on F-Droid or Google Play Store.

The Prevue channel definitely wow’d me with using an SQL database for the data and SDL to render that.

Exactly my thoughts. I was looking to see if he had any possible contact options to ask him to consider that, but haven’t been able to find any to this date.