Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we’re reaching out to find out what’s going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there’s https://f-droid.org/en/packages/im.vector.app/ but it’s a few versions behind. We’ll post updates here.
This is the only issue I can find on their github: https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/2737
I’m asking them to host their own f-droid repo, would be a really good idea.
But it’s in official f-droid. Is it too out of date that you’re asking for a custom repo? If using a custom repo, I’d hope they keep the f-droid policy though, removing all google and proprietary stuff…