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TWIF generated on Thursday, 11 Jan 2024, Week 2

Community News

Akash Yadav announces the inclusion of AndroidIDE:

Though still in its early stages (beta), AndroidIDE provides features like Gradle build support, code completions, code actions, basic code navigation, source code analysis, drag-n-drop UI designer (experimental) and a Termux-based terminal with required packages.

Its feature list is interesting, but do note the biggest limitation: no NDK support, at least for now (this means that if your app has per architecture libs, they can’t yet be built).

For fun we’ve tried to build F-Droid client on our phones but hit a bug. We’ll report back on progress in future TWIFs.

@Licaon_Kter updates us on NewPipe:

As the first TWIF of the year mentioned, latest NewPipe versions are not yet published since they were not reproducible. The NewPipe team is aware and we are waiting for a fix.

SimpleX Chat was updated to version 5.4.2 for the arm64 architecture too, hence you’ll see an update, albeit the version is the same.

Smoke and SmokeStack were updated too, bringing a new SmokeStack icon but also loosen the minimal needed version, from Android 9 to Android 7.1, so more users can enjoy them.

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