Playing with old apps
Posted on Aug 22, 2024 by
paulali
This Week in F-Droid
TWIF curated on Thursday, 22 Aug 2024, Week 34
Community News
We don’t have the habit of recommending apps (besides F-Droid and F-Droid Basic clients as expected 😛), but this week a common theme was brought up, “what’s up with VLC?”.
We’ve pinged the VLC team in the past and it looked like a new release was just around the corner, I mean the app works fine but it hasn’t seen a stable release in 18 months, and while past CVEs don’t seem to affect it, there’s always the fear of the unknown or just the impression that “it is old”.
Regarding the release delay, we understood that there are some issues regarding publishing VLC on some alternative centralized store but since same store owner was praising VLC not only on mobile devices but also on TVs we expected it to be fixed by now, yet it isn’t. And worse, it feels like that drama is delaying a stable release for F-Droid too. Eager users pinged us or opened Forum threads concerned that maybe F-Droid skipped a beat, as at least VLC is pushing nightly packages to their site just fine.
Hoping the story above clears some things, F-Droid includes some other players that might strike your fancy, and these got updated in the last 2 months (not years):
- NOVA Video Player was updated to
6.2.93this week - Next Player was updated last week
- mpv-android and Just (Video) Player were updated in June and new versions are built as we speak
Removed Apps
3 old apps were removed
- BART Runner: Timetables for trains in the U.S., as the API used appears to be no longer available.
- QuickLyric: Fetch and display song lyrics, stopped working
- Sharing: Share files and apps using browser, just got a name change, users should uninstall (old appid
com.ammar.filescenter) and reinstall the new Sharing app that was added
Newly Added Apps
8 more apps were newly added
- Cardabase: Save EAN-13 club cards on your phone
- Ciyue: A simple mdict dictionary
- Conversations Classic: Encrypted, easy-to-use XMPP instant messenger for your mobile device (a fork of Conversations from different developers wanting to preserve the old look and feel)
- gttrpg: Quick access for your DnD data with a built in way to track your character data
- kitshn (for Tandoor): An unofficial client for the self-hosted Tandoor recipe management software
- Material Notes: Simple, local, material design notes
- Solar: Monitor off-grid solar setups over bluetooth
- µLauncher: A distraction-free minimal homescreen for Android
Updated Apps
150 more apps are no longer old
(expand for the full list)
- [lWS.QR] lightweight Web Server QR code was updated to
05.00.00 - Acode editor - Android code editor was updated to
1.10.4 - Amethyst was updated to
0.89.10 - Anuto TD was updated to
0.12 - Apollo was updated to
1.5.13 - Baby Books was updated to
0.9.2 - Ball2Box was updated to
4.1.2 - Battery Notification was updated to
1.4.6 - Better Internet Tiles was updated to
3.0.0-fdroid - Bide et Musique was updated to
4.1.0 - Birday - Birthday Manager was updated to
4.5.1 - blichess was updated to
8.0.0+ble1.0.2 - Blood pressure monitor was updated to
1.7.3 - Book’s Story was updated to
1.1.1 - Break.Down.Timer was updated to
1.2.2 - Brume Wallet was updated to
0.6.524 - Cache Cleaner was updated to
1.12.3 - Capy Reader was updated to
2024.08.1031 - Celestia was updated to
1.7.5 - Ceno Browser: Share the Web was updated to
2.2.1 - Chaldea was updated to
2.5.12 - Chess was updated to
9.5.0 - Conversations was updated to
2.16.6+free - Converter NOW: Unit Converter was updated to
4.2.3 - Cuppa - Tea Timer was updated to
2.7.7 - Cuscon was updated to
4.0.3.2 - Dark Mode Live Wallpaper was updated to
1.7.1 - Dart Checker was updated to
0.7.9 - Dash Wallet was updated to
10.2.0 - Drinkable was updated to
1.51.1 - DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to
5.210.2 - Easy Notes was updated to
1.3.5 - EinkBro was updated to
11.13.0 - Energize was updated to
0.9.0 - Ente Auth was updated to
3.1.2 - Eternity was updated to
0.2.1 - FairEmail was updated to
1.2223 - FitBook was updated to
1.0.81 - Flexify was updated to
1.1.85 - floccus bookmark sync was updated to
5.2.6 - Flux News was updated to
1.5.5 - Forkgram was updated to
10.9.8.0 - FOSS Browser was updated to
16 - Fridgey was updated to
1.8 - Gallery for PhotoPrism was updated to
1.29.0 - GraphHopper Maps was updated to
2.1.0 - GreenStash: Track Your Savings was updated to
3.9.0 - Hammer [ALPHA] was updated to
1.7.2 - huggingAssist was updated to
2.1 - Immich was updated to
1.112.1 - Infomaniak Mail was updated to
1.4.4 - InnerTune was updated to
0.5.7 - IPCalc Android was updated to
2.2 - Jellyfin for Android TV was updated to
0.17.3 - Joplin was updated to
3.1.2 - jtx Board journals|notes|tasks was updated to
2.09.01.ose - Karbon was updated to
2.6.0 - Karma Firewall was updated to
66 - KDE Connect was updated to
1.32.0 - Kepler-App was updated to
2.5.2 - Key Mapper GUI Keyboard was updated to
1.4.5 - Keyoxide was updated to
2.4.2 - Kitsune was updated to
2.0.1 - Klick’r - Smart AutoClicker was updated to
3.0.1 - Klock was updated to
1.2.0 - Kotatsu was updated to
7.4.3 - LibreTrack was updated to
1.5.0 - LMd - Le Monde diplomatique DE was updated to
2.2.0 - Lyrion was updated to
0.6.3 - MedTimer was updated to
1.9.3 - Mercurygram was updated to
10.14.5.0 - Meshenger was updated to
4.3.6 - Migraine Log was updated to
0.11.3 - Minetest was updated to
5.9.0 - Minute Maze was updated to
0.2.0 - Money Manager Ex was updated to
2024.08.13 - MoneyBuster was updated to
0.1.20 - MonsterMusic was updated to
0.1.25 - Nekome was updated to
2.2.3 - NeoStumbler was updated to
1.3.1 - neutriNote CE was updated to
4.5.3c - Next Player was updated to
0.12.0 - Nextcloud Dev was updated to
20240819 - NFC Quick Settings was updated to
1.4.3 -
Notesnook - Private notes app was updated to
3.0.14 - Nunti was updated to
v2.6.0 - Open Sudoku was updated to
4.0.6 - openHAB was updated to
3.16.1 - openHAB Beta was updated to
3.15.10-beta - OpenVPN for Android was updated to
0.7.53 - Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline was updated to
2024.08.16-5-FDroid - OsmAnd~ was updated to
4.8.6 - Paperize - A Wallpaper Changer was updated to
2.0.0 - Petals was updated to
3.28.0-SNAPSHOT.0 - PixelDroid was updated to
1.0.beta34 - Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to
6.3.7 - Power Ampache 2 was updated to
1.00-65-fdroid - Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to
1.24.4 - Quicksy was updated to
2.16.6+free - Quillpad was updated to
1.4.18 - Quran 16 Line - Quran Revision Helper was updated to
1.2.3 - Remote Video Camera was updated to
3.3 - Revengate was updated to
0.12.9 - RiMusic was updated to
0.6.48 - Robot36 - SSTV Image Decoder was updated to
2.12 - Rtl-sdr driver was updated to
3.151 - Rush was updated to
1.9.0 - Safe Space was updated to
2.0.5 - Satunes was updated to
2.1.0 - SCEE was updated to
58.21 - ScreenStream was updated to
4.1.10 - SDAI FOSS was updated to
0.6.3 - Seal was updated to
1.13.0-(F-Droid) - SelfPrivacy was updated to
0.12.1 - Session F-Droid was updated to
1.19.1 - Simple Crypto Widget was updated to
8.5.7 - SimpleX Chat was updated to
6.0.1 - SMASH — Smart Mobile App for Surveyor’s Happiness was updated to
1.9.4 - SnapSaver was updated to
0.2.0 - Snow was updated to
1.3.8 - SocksTun was updated to
2.5 - SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to
1.20 - SpMp was updated to
0.4.0 - Spotube was updated to
3.8.0 - SSTV Encoder was updated to
2.11 - Super Retro Mega Wars was updated to
0.32.5 - Syncthing was updated to
1.27.10 - Syncthing-Fork was updated to
1.27.9.0 - Taler Wallet was updated to
0.12.1 - taz was updated to
1.9.2 - Terminal Emulator was updated to
5.1.0/X - Threema Libre was updated to
5.5l - Thumb-Key was updated to
3.4.1 - TimeLapseCam was updated to
1.8 - Track Work Time was updated to
1.1.25 - TriPeaks was updated to
1.1.0 - Träwelldroid was updated to
2.13.1 - Tuta Mail was updated to
240.240816.0 - Twire was updated to
2.11.0 - Unciv was updated to
4.12.19 - Valentin’s PowerTools #002 - Passwords to remember was updated to
1.0.5 - Valentin’s PowerTools #003 - Gesture Drawing Pract was updated to
1.0.5 - Valentin’s PowerTools #005 - Roll Some Dice was updated to
1.0.4 - Valentin’s PowerTools #018 - Volume Percent Calcul was updated to
1.0.5 - Valv was updated to
1.10.0 - Vespucci was updated to
20.1.0.0 - Vinyl Music Player was updated to
1.11.0 - Voyager for Lemmy was updated to
2.17.0 - VRChat Android Assistant was updated to
2.0.0 - WG Tunnel was updated to
3.5.1
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