One twenty for everyone
Posted on Jun 13, 2024 by
Licaon_Kter
This Week in F-Droid
TWIF curated on Thursday, 13 Jun 2024, Week 24
F-Droid core
As a low key event last week, F-Droid Client and Basic 1.20 were marked as suggested, so everyone who can run it (Android 6 or later) should update and enjoy the new features.
Since the repositories changes have a big impact, we recommend you to take a look in your client Settings and to read @grote’s explainer post on how things work now.
Community News
@linsui cleans an NFC card:
Many OEM Android distributions have a built-in NFC card emulator but there was no such thing in the open-source ones. Now we have NFCGate, An NFC research toolkit, which can emulate some cards with NFC. Do note that an unlocked device with LSPosed and Root are required to use this function.
The popular system cleaner, SD Maid 2/SE - System Cleaner, A trusted assistant for your Android, to keep it clean and tidy, is available on F-Droid now. It was removed from some centralized alternative store and the developer account was banned by its known monopolistic owner last year, but that won’t happen on F-Droid because we don’t have accounts at all.
@Licaon_Kter calculates an element:
Back in January we highlighted an Element update and hinted about their work-in-progress enhanced version. The wait is over, Element X - Secure messenger, Fastest ever Matrix client, is now live and built reproducible. You can read last years blog and keep an eye on future announcements. Note: as the plan is to replace Element with ElementX in the future keep in mind that the life of the new app might be cut short as the developers decide. We’ll keep you posted as the news reach us.
While we have some old apps that still prove useful we usually touch them for archiving or they become uninstallable as Google moves target goal posts further away. A nice surprise is RPN, Reverse Polish Notation Calculator, which appears to be a fan favorite and was updated to 2.0.4 after 12(!) years. Feel free to browse our other RPN apps too.
Removed Apps
4 apps were removed
- LMD and taz.app klassisch already have newer and better replacements that are developed and supported.
- ODK Collect is no longer up to date so upstream asked the team to archive it.
- Tiny Tiny RSS was started based on a need to have it easily accessible. By now there are plenty more RSS apps in the repo.
Newly Added Apps
6 more apps were newly added
- Caffeinate - Keep your phone’s screen On while developing
- Fridgey - Help for recording your food!
- Healthy Battery Charging - Prolong the battery life of your phone by keeping it charged between 40% and 80%
- Meditation Timer - App that counts, beeps, and helps with repeating tasks, such as meditation
- Satunes - An mp3 player compatible with Android Auto for Android Lollipop 5.1.1+
- SkinBread - Lightweight application for viewing Minecraft skins from different services
Updated Apps
135 more apps were updated
- 8Vim Keyboard was updated to
0.17.3 - AAAAXY was updated to
1.5.139+20240603.3458.879ed991 - AELF - Bible and day’s reading was updated to
2.8.5 - AVNC was updated to
2.5.0 - Amarok was updated to
0.9.1 - Amethyst was updated to
0.87.6 - AndBible: Bible Study was updated to
5.0.809 - AniHyou - AniList client was updated to
1.3.1 - Asteroid’s Revenge was updated to
0.10.7 - Aurora Store was updated to
4.5.0 - Auth was updated to
3.0.8 - Binary Eye was updated to
1.63.9 - BitBanana was updated to
0.8.2 - Blazed Cloud - Encrypted Storage was updated to
1.6.1 - ChatLaunch for WhatsApp was updated to
0.5.0 - Clock Screensaver was updated to
1.12.2 - Closet-Archive was updated to
1.0.9 - ColorBlendr was updated to
v1.5 - Conversations was updated to
2.16.4+free - Dark Mode Live Wallpaper was updated to
1.6.7 - Dib2Qm was updated to
0.24.22 - Drinkable was updated to
1.50.0 - Easy Diary was updated to
1.4.308.202406030 - EinkBro was updated to
11.9.0 - Everyday Tasks was updated to
1.7.0 - F-Droid Build Status was updated to
5.5.0 - FFShare was updated to
1.2.9 - FOSS4G Europe 2024 was updated to
1.64.2-FOSS4G-Edition - FREE Browser was updated to
2.8 - FairEmail was updated to
1.2198 - Feeder was updated to
2.6.26 - Files was updated to
0.6.3 - FitBook was updated to
1.0.38 - Flexify was updated to
1.1.22 - Forkgram was updated to
10.9.4.0 - Foto Timer was updated to
1.1.2 - Frigoligo was updated to
1.1.0 - GPS Cockpit was updated to
2.6 - Gallery for PhotoPrism was updated to
1.27.0 - Goodtime - Minimalist Pomodoro Timer was updated to
2.6.2 - Hacki for Hacker News was updated to
2.8.1 - HexViewer was updated to
1.55 - Home Assistant was updated to
2024.6.1-minimal - IVPN - Secure VPN for Privacy was updated to
2.10.8 - ImgurViewer was updated to
2.4.0 - Infomaniak Mail was updated to
1.3.2 - Infomaniak kDrive was updated to
4.4.10 - InviZible Pro: increase your security, protect you was updated to
6.7.1 - Jerboa for Lemmy was updated to
0.0.67 - Keep Screen On was updated to
1.18.2 - Kepler-App was updated to
2.3.0 - KeyPass was updated to
1.4.28 - Keyboard Switcher was updated to
3.1 - Keyoxide was updated to
2.3.1 - Kotatsu was updated to
7.2 - LeMondeRssReader was updated to
3.2.1 - LibreOffice Viewer was updated to
24.2.4.2 - Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to
2.1.1-rc.2 - Lyrion was updated to
0.5.0 - M3U was updated to
1.14.0-rc01 - MOROway App was updated to
9.1.9 - Materials Live Wallpaper was updated to
1.6 - Mercurygram was updated to
10.12.0.1 - Meshtastic was updated to
2.3.11 - Monly was updated to
2.9 - MonsterMusic was updated to
0.1.20 - Myne: Download & Read eBooks was updated to
3.9.0 - Nextcloud Dev was updated to
20240608 - Notally - Minimalist Notes was updated to
5.9 - OONI Probe was updated to
3.8.8 - Offi was updated to
12.1.21-aosp - OpenTopoMap Viewer was updated to
1.17 - Orion Viewer - Pdf & Djvu was updated to
0.94.0 - Pagan Music Sequencer was updated to
1.4.8 - PariDroid was updated to
2.15.4.2.3 - Peercoin Wallet was updated to
1.3.0 - Peristyle was updated to
1.47_beta - Permission Manager X was updated to
v1.25-fd - Petals was updated to
3.24.0 - Phonograph Plus was updated to
1.7.1 - PhotoChiotte was updated to
1.54 - PiliPalaX was updated to
1.0.20-beta.1 - PipePipe was updated to
3.4.3 - PlainApp: File & Web Access was updated to
1.2.58 - Power Ampache 2 was updated to
1.00-59-fdroid - ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to
5.3.65.0 - Quicksy was updated to
2.16.4+free - Read You was updated to
0.10.1 - Rethink: DNS + Firewall + VPN was updated to
v0.5.5n - RetroArch was updated to
1.19.1 - Revengate was updated to
0.12.8 - Ricochlime was updated to
1.8.2 - RunnerUp was updated to
2.7.0.0 - SMASH - Smart Mobile App for Surveyor’s Happiness was updated to
1.9.1 - Save Locally: Share2Storage was updated to
1.2.3 - SchildiChat was updated to
1.6.16.sc78 - Scoreboard was updated to
1.0-264 - Shader Editor was updated to
2.34.1 - Share Paste O2 was updated to
2024.06.05 - Shattered Pixel Dungeon was updated to
2.4.2 - Shiori was updated to
1.33 - SiYuan was updated to
3.0.17 - Simple Search was updated to
2.0 - SimpleX Chat was updated to
5.8 - Souvenirs was updated to
2.9.1 - SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to
1.12 - Spotube was updated to
3.7.1 - Standard Notes was updated to
3.194.9 - TRIfA was updated to
1.0.232 - Table Habit was updated to
1.12.8 - Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders was updated to
13.9.9 - The Light was updated to
3.84 - TorrServe was updated to
MatriX.133t.F-Droid - Traintime PDA was updated to
1.2.1 - Tuta Mail was updated to
230.240603.0 - Unciv was updated to
4.11.18-patch1 - Vespucci was updated to
20.0.2.0 - Voyager for Lemmy was updated to
2.12.1 - Weather Forecast USA was updated to
4.0.1 - Wikipedia was updated to
r/2.7.50490-r-2024-05-28 - XCSoar was updated to
7.43 - Xed Editor was updated to
1.1.7 - Xray was updated to
6.9.0 - Xtra was updated to
2.32.2 - Youamp was updated to
1.0.0-alpha06 - e1547 - e621 browser was updated to
19.1.0 - eXch. was updated to
1.3.2 - huggingAssist was updated to
1.7 - idTech4A++ was updated to
1.1.0harmattan51natasha - jtx Board journals¬es&tasks was updated to
2.07.09.ose - mpv-android was updated to
2024-06-05-release - ntodotxt was updated to
0.10.0 - openHAB Beta was updated to
3.13.3-beta - sing-box was updated to
1.9.3 - uNote - microNote was updated to
1.7.3
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