Maintaining ownership
Posted on Apr 18, 2024 by paulaliTWIF generated on Thursday, 18 Apr 2024, Week 16
F-Droid core
Update 1.20.0-alpha1
added “tighter integration with the unattended updates code for Android 14 and later” as last week’s TWIF said, and we’ve covered a bit about this in TWIF24 week 6 when we said: “Each app has a new property about which app installed it last creating a bond between them. This property is set on install or on the next manual update”. Why is this important? Well, the EU Digital Markets Act asked Google (and not only 😉) to treat user installed application stores as a first class citizen, to give them the same importance as their own centralized proprietary store. In the past, users complained in our forum and elsewhere on the Internet, that Google Play tries (and most often fails) to update apps installed by F-Droid Client.
We start to see the changes, needed for the above legislation, in action already, as Play started to acknowledge where an app was installed from and to not force updates against the user’s will. Our own client developer, @grote, posted a screenshot here ✅.
As usual with software development, always test with the latest versions available, and Google uses this as a defense, this means latest Android, Play version and of course latest F-Droid Client version 1.20.0-alpha1
.
Feedback is welcomed!
Community News
@linsui tunnels for a fix:
Tailscale is going through an app redesign that will be released soon. During this development two new versions were pushed to F-Droid, 1.61.105
and 1.64.0
, those were not yet ready and were just crashing at start. Today, a fixed version was released, 1.60.1-t2caffeeb4-g6f7ae79a31c
, and users are asked to update.
@Licaon_Kter craves for Material Me:
Conversations and Quicksy were updated to 2.15.0+free
marking not only a 10 year anniversary of the app but also bringing an updated redesign of the UI. Started as an “what if?” experiment of an XMPP client that ‘cloned’ the current (at the time) Google Hangouts app, the old design language of the UI was a pain point for many new users. The new design lets all that go and embraces the current Material You language that leaves old users longing for the old familiar green 😢 and baffles new users that can’t just make the palette look like they want 😂. All Android versions get a new default theme, but on Android 12 or later users can enable the new in-app Dynamic color mode and use their Android system Settings to change colors. Theme feedback was massive so expect little tweaks and fixes as new versions are released too.
While the new design is nice (screenshots will be updated for the next version), most users care about the actual app functionality. Regarding the calling integration that 2.14.0
brought, users of Realme or OnePlus devices with stock ROM are asked to test both in and out calls, and provide feedback if they’re not working. And coming back to TWIF24 week 14, users on Android 7 or older that install Quicksy today might not be able to register an account pertaining to the Let’s Encrypt certificate expiration issue. The same advice applies, install the Let’s Encrypt ISRG Root X1 certificate so this is fixed system wide, but the developer is aware and a fix will be pushed in a new version soon.
Newly Added Apps
10 apps were newly added
- Briar Mailbox - Receive encrypted messages while Briar is offline (App description will be fixed soon)
- FeelsApp - Write notes and associate them with emotions
- JMP SIM Manager - Companion app for the JMP eSIM Adapter
- Life Counter - Life Counter for Magic The Gathering
- Meteo Weather Greece - A lightweight, beautiful weather app that fetches data from meteo.gr
- QQ Notification Evolution - Optimize QQ notification without ROOT
- Quacker - A private and clean way to browse X/Twitter
- Stendhal Game - A multiplayer adventure with classic 2D graphics
- Timed Silence - Don’t let your phone rattle you! - An app that manages your phone’s volume. It will mute your phone for you!
- disky - Find your biggest disk space thieves! - A filesystem analyzer that can show you the usage of your storage!
Updated Apps
160 more apps were updated
- AAAAXY was updated from
1.5.42+20240304.3361.65bd9a62
to1.5.54+20240407.3373.3f58f518
- AELF - Bible and day’s reading was updated from
2.8.3
to2.8.4
- Activity Launcher was updated from
2.0.1
to2.0.2
- AgoraDesk: buy BTC anonymously was updated from
1.1.31
to1.1.32
- Alovoa was updated from
1.10.0
to1.10.0
- Amethyst was updated from
0.86.2
to0.86.5
- Apollo was updated from
1.4.3
to1.4.4
- AusweisApp was updated from
2.1.0
to2.1.1
- AutoDND was updated from
3.1
to3.2
- BRouter was updated from
1.7.3
to1.7.4
- BetterCounter was updated from
4.6.0
to4.6.1
- Binary Eye was updated from
1.63.5
to1.63.6
- Blazed Cloud - Encrypted Storage was updated from
1.3.6
to1.3.8
- Blitz: Fischer Chess Clock was updated from
1.8.0
to1.8.1
- Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated from
12.6
to12.7
- Ceno Browser: Share the Web was updated from
2.0.9
to2.1.0
- Chaldea was updated from
2.5.7
to2.5.8
- Child Monitor was updated from
1.3
to1.4
- Chrono was updated from
0.4.0-beta2
to0.4.0
- Cigaló was updated from
0.1.2
to0.1.4
- Circles was updated from
1.0.27
to1.0.29
- Clipious was updated from
1.19.2
to1.19.5
- Closet-Archive was updated from
1.0.3
to1.0.4
- Copy SMS Code - OTP Helper was updated from
1.13.4
to1.14.0
- Cuppa - Tea Timer was updated from
2.6.0
to2.7.1
- Cuscon was updated from
4.0.1.8
to4.0.1.9
- Dolphin Emulator was updated from
5.0-21088
to5.0-21264
- Doodle Dudette was updated from
1.0.5
to1.0.7
- Drinkable was updated from
1.48.0
to1.49.0
- EBT New Note was updated from
0.75.0
to0.77.0
- ESBDirect was updated from
3.4
to3.4.1
- Eat Poop You Cat was updated from
1.2.2
to1.4.0
- FFUpdater was updated from
79.1.1
to79.2.0
- FOSS Browser was updated from
13
to14
- FairEmail was updated from
1.2171
to1.2172
- Fast N Fitness was updated from
0.20.6
to0.20.6.2
- Feeder was updated from
2.6.21
to2.6.22
- Filester was updated from
2.3.1
to2.3.2
- FluffyChat was updated from
1.18.0
to1.19.2
- Flux News was updated from
1.3.8
to1.4.2
- ForPDA was updated from
3.6.4
to3.6.6
- Freebloks was updated from
1.4.5
to1.5.2
- Gauguin was updated from
0.24.0
to0.24.2
- Geto was updated from
1.15.3
to1.15.4
- GitNex for Forgejo and Gitea was updated from
5.3.0
to5.4.0
- Grabagram was updated from
13
to14
- GreenStash was updated from
3.2.0
to3.3.0
- Guileless Bopomofo Keyboard was updated from
1.9.47
to1.9.48
- HTTP Request Shortcuts was updated from
3.10.0
to3.11.1
- HeliBoard was updated from
1.2
to1.3-beta1
- HexViewer was updated from
1.53
to1.54
- Home Assistant was updated from
2024.3.5-minimal
to2024.4.1-minimal
- I2P was updated from
2.4.0
to2.5.0
- Ichaival was updated from
1.7.2
to1.7.3
- Iconeration was updated from
1.4.4
to2024.04.00
- Identify Dog Breeds Pro was updated from
27
to28
- Infomaniak kSync was updated from
4.3.9
to4.3.14
- Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated from
Build100.3.0
toBuild100.4.0 (Final)
- JS-Dict was updated from
1.2.0
to1.2.1
- Jami was updated from
20240321-01
to20240412-01
- Jellyfin for Android TV was updated from
0.16.7
to0.16.8
- Jerboa for Lemmy was updated from
0.0.65
to0.0.66
- KDE Connect was updated from
1.29.0
to1.30.1
- Launch Chat was updated from
1.0.0
to1.1.0
- Les Pas - Photo Album for Nextcloud was updated from
2.9.8
to2.9.9
- LibrePass was updated from
1.2.4
to1.3.0
- Linwood Butterfly was updated from
2.1.0-beta.4
to2.1.0-beta.5
- LocalMonero: buy XMR privately was updated from
1.1.31
to1.1.32
- Mastodon was updated from
2.4.1
to2.5.0
- MedTimer was updated from
1.6.0
to1.7.0
- Memories: Photo Management for Nextcloud was updated from
1.9
to1.10
- Meshtastic was updated from
2.3.2
to2.3.3
- Mines3D was updated from
1.4.3
to1.4.4
- MoeMemos was updated from
0.7.3
to0.7.4
- Money Manager Ex was updated from
2024.04.01
to2024.04.15
- My Expenses was updated from
3.8.0
to3.8.1
- Myne: Download & Read eBooks was updated from
3.3.0
to3.4.0
- Mysterium VPN - Next Gen VPN was updated from
2.1.11
to2.1.13
- Next Actualités informatiques was updated from
2.7.6
to2.7.8
- Nextcloud Dev was updated from
20240406
to20240414
- OONI Probe was updated from
3.8.6
to3.8.7
- Obtainium was updated from
1.1.1
to1.1.3
- Open Stable Diffusion was updated from
1.10
to1.11
- OpenAthena™ for Android was updated from
0.20.0
to0.20.2
- OpenTopoMap Viewer was updated from
1.13.3
to1.15
- OpenVK Legacy was updated from
1.2.237-f
to1.2.239-f
- Openreads was updated from
2.6.0
to2.7.0
- Orion Viewer - Pdf & Djvu was updated from
0.90.2
to0.90.3
- PReVo was updated from
0.24
to0.26
- Pain Diary (PFA) was updated from
1.3.1
to1.3.2
- Peercoin Wallet was updated from
1.2.4
to1.2.5
- Peristyle was updated from
1.39_beta
to1.40_beta
- Phonograph Plus was updated from
1.5.2
to1.6.0
- Pie Launcher was updated from
1.19.1
to1.19.2
- PinPoi was updated from
1.10.4
to1.10.6
- PipePipe was updated from
3.3.1
to3.4.1
- Pirate Solitaire was updated from
1.0
to1.3
- PlainApp: File & Web Access was updated from
1.2.44
to1.2.46
- Planetario was updated from
1.0
to2.0
- Podcini - Podcast instrument was updated from
4.6.0
to4.8.0
- Podverse was updated from
4.15.4
to4.16.0
- PySolFC was updated from
2.24.0
to3.0.0
- QuickWeather was updated from
2.6.6
to2.6.9
- Revengate was updated from
0.12.1
to0.12.3
- RiMusic was updated from
0.6.29
to0.6.30
- Ricochlime was updated from
1.3.0
to1.3.1
- SerialTest was updated from
V0.3.4
toV0.3.5
- SexyTopo was updated from
1.8.1
to1.8.2
- SiYuan was updated from
3.0.7
to3.0.9
- SimpleTextEditor was updated from
1.24.2
to1.25.0
- SimplyTranslate Mobile was updated from
1.4.3
to1.4.4
- Snikket was updated from
2.12.2+free
to2.13.4-2+free
- Standard Notes was updated from
3.192.10
to3.193.2
- Status Bar Speedometer was updated from
3.5.1
to3.6.0
- Swatch .beat clock was updated from
v1.2.4
tov1.2.6
- Syncthing was updated from
1.27.5
to1.27.6
- Syncthing-Fork was updated from
1.27.4.1
to1.27.6.0
- Table Habit was updated from
1.11.0
to1.11.1
- The Light was updated from
3.80
to3.81
- Thumb-Key was updated from
2.7.3
to2.7.6
- TimeLapseCam was updated from
1.6
to1.7
- TimeLimit.io was updated from
6.19.0
to6.20.0
- TimeR Machine was updated from
7.4.0
to7.5.0
- TorrServe was updated from
MatriX.131.F-Droid
toMatriX.132.F-Droid
- Traintime PDA was updated from
1.1.1
to1.2.0
- Trime was updated from
3.2.16
to3.2.17
- Trireme for Deluge was updated from
1.4.1
to1.4.3
- Träwelldroid was updated from
2.7.2
to2.7.3
- Tuta Mail was updated from
220.240403.0
to220.240411.0
- Unciv was updated from
4.11.1
to4.11.4
- VES - Image and Photo Compare was updated from
2.2.6
to2.2.7
- Vernet - Network Analyzer was updated from
1.0.5
to1.0.6
- Voyager for Lemmy was updated from
2.3.1
to2.4.0
- WG Tunnel was updated from
3.4.0
to3.4.1
- WallFlow was updated from
2.4.3
to2.5.0
- WallFlow Plus was updated from
2.4.3
to2.5.0
- Welefon was updated from
1.3.2
to1.3.3
- Xtra was updated from
2.30.7
to2.31.0
- YacGuide was updated from
0.7.1
to0.8.0
- Zulip was updated from
27.225
to27.226
- addy.io (formerly AnonAddy) was updated from
v5.2.2
tov5.2.3
- auth was updated from
2.0.41
to2.0.55
- baresip was updated from
60.1.0
to60.2.0
- croc was updated from
1.10.13
to1.10.14
- ente Photos was updated from
0.8.74
to0.8.79
- i2pd was updated from
2.50.2
to2.51.0
- jtx Board journals¬es&tasks was updated from
2.07.02.ose
to2.07.03.ose
- mLauncher - Minimal and Clutter Free launcher was updated from
1.4.7
to1.5.2
- microMathematics Plus was updated from
2.23.1
to2.23.2
- monocles chat was updated from
1.7.9.5.1
to1.7.9.5.2
- mpv-android was updated from
2023-11-30-release
to2024-04-09-release
- open2share was updated from
1.6
to1.7
- openHAB Beta was updated from
3.12.1-beta
to3.12.2-beta
- osm2gmaps was updated from
0.3.5
to0.4.3
- sing-box was updated from
1.8.10
to1.8.11
- timeto.me was updated from
2024.02.24
to2024.04.08
- wX was updated from
55877
to55881
- whoBIRD was updated from
2.7
to2.9
- μlogger was updated from
3.10
to3.11
- 拷贝漫画 was updated from
2.2.8
to2.2.9
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