Additional repos shaping the UI
Posted on Jun 20, 2024 by
paulali
This Week in F-Droid
TWIF curated on Thursday, 20 Jun 2024, Week 25
F-Droid core
One feature of F-Droid Client since 2018 is the support of loading additional repositories from the custom partition, this is used by custom ROMs Android distributions to include their own repositories and provide updates for their own apps or more. Examples of such are CalyxOS and DivestOS.
Since the latest 1.20 update redesigned not only the way repos are shown but how priorities work, one issue that was raised was that additional repos are added at the bottom of the list with a lower priority. In the past, while these were at the top, with a lower priority (in that old design), F-Droid had no concept of favorite repo for an app, hence updates were installed from whichever one had a newer version with a correct signature. This means that now, additional repos not only end up at the bottom of the list but also F-Droid will ignore updates they host if they are not marked as favorites for an app. In last week’s TWIF we’ve encouraged users to at least take a look in Settings - Manage Repos, more so if you have repos from your Android distribution there, you can move them to the top as a quick fix.
There is an issue discussing this here and a proposed work-in-progress fix here. If you are integrating additional repos in your own custom Android, feel free to read and provide your feedback.
Talking about updates, and auto-updates more exactly, users of Android 14 should be all setup for that perfect flow of unattended F-Droid bliss. Yet, we’ve heard from Fedi users that latest Android 14 June 2024 Quarterly Platform Release might break this on certain distributions. Here’s the CalyxOS issue and the GrapheneOS report, so if you see the same do share your experience.
Community News
CineLog, Rate and review movies and series that you saw, was removed back in April as its dependencies were not fully FOSS. But this week version 2.0.0 is back!
Delta Chat was updated to 1.46.5. The developers recently blogged about “Hardening Guaranteed End-to-End encryption based on a security analysis from ETH researchers and the security improvements that got into version 1.44 and about the improved “Instant Onboarding and Instant Message Delivery”.
Fennec F-Droid and Mull were updated to 127.0.0 with a bit of a delay. Mozilla, the developers of Firefox, the base for both apps, have recently gone through some repo and code changes that took more time and more polish than usual. We hope future versions land faster now that fixes were applied. We want to thank @relan and @IratePorcupine, the F-Droid contributors that take care of this huge endeavor.
Newly Added Apps
5 apps were newly added
- AlexCalc - Scientific calculator with LaTeX equation display
- CaptureSposed - Add support for blocking the Screenshot Detection API introduced in Android 14!
- Notification Listener - Get notified only of important notifications
- Raven - Use APIs and web scraping to fetch news articles
- The One App - Manage a player’s characters in the RPG The One Ring
Updated Apps
133 more apps were updated
- 8Vim Keyboard was updated to
0.17.4 - AELF - Bible and day’s reading was updated to
2.8.7 - ANOTHERpass was updated to
1.9.5 - Aggregator was updated to
Preview:034 - Amethyst was updated to
0.87.7 - AniHyou - AniList client was updated to
1.3.2 - Apollo was updated to
1.5.2 - Asteroid’s Revenge was updated to
0.10.8 - Aurora Store was updated to
4.5.1 - Auth was updated to
3.0.12 - Avare was updated to
10.3.2 - Aves Libre was updated to
1.11.2 - BOINC was updated to
8.0.3 - BVD was updated to
2.1.0.foss - BitBanana was updated to
0.8.3 - BleOta was updated to
1.0.3 - Broccoli: The Green Recipe App was updated to
1.2.10 - Caffeinate was updated to
1.4.5 - Candle was updated to
1.4.0 - ChatLaunch for WhatsApp was updated to
0.6.0 - Circles was updated to
1.0.31 - Clock was updated to
2.5 - Daily Dozen was updated to
25 - Dark Mode Live Wallpaper was updated to
1.6.9 - Databag was updated to
1.1 - DeepL was updated to
8.2 - EVMap - EV chargers was updated to
1.9.3 - Easy Diary was updated to
1.4.309.202406100 - Easy Launcher - Minimal launcher was updated to
0.1.5 - EasySync was updated to
1.10 - EinkBro was updated to
11.10.0 - Etar - OpenSource Calendar was updated to
1.0.46 - FFShare was updated to
1.3.0 - FairEmail was updated to
1.2204 - Feeder was updated to
2.6.28 - Files was updated to
0.6.4 - Fintunes was updated to
2.3.3 - Flexify was updated to
1.1.26 - Flux News was updated to
1.4.3 - Forkyz was updated to
54 - FreeOTP was updated to
2.0.4 - Fridgey was updated to
1.1 - Gas Prices was updated to
2.6 - Gauguin was updated to
0.27.0 - Green: Bitcoin Wallet was updated to
4.0.30 - Healthy Battery Charging was updated to
2.0.2 - ICSx⁵ was updated to
2.2.3 - Immich was updated to
1.106.4 - Infomaniak Mail was updated to
1.3.3 - Infomaniak kDrive was updated to
4.4.11 - Infomaniak kMeet was updated to
2.6.2 - Jerboa for Lemmy was updated to
0.0.69 - Joplin was updated to
3.0.4 - KDE Connect was updated to
1.31.1 - KeyPass was updated to
1.4.29 - Keyboard Switcher was updated to
3.2 - Kitsune was updated to
1.10.7 - Linwood Butterfly was updated to
2.1.1 - Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to
2.1.1 - Léon – The URL Cleaner was updated to
42 - Mattermost Beta was updated to
2.17.0 - MedTimer was updated to
1.8.9 - Media Merger was updated to
1.2.117 - Metronome was updated to
4.12.1 - Mill was updated to
4.13.0 - MoeMemos was updated to
0.8.1 - Money Manager Ex was updated to
2024.06.14 - Mullvad VPN: privacy is a universal right was updated to
2024.3-beta1 - Musify was updated to
8.2.0 - My Expenses was updated to
3.8.6 - NFCGate was updated to
2.4.2 - NeoStumbler was updated to
1.2.2 - NewPass was updated to
1.2.0 - Nextcloud Cookbook was updated to
0.17.0 - Nextcloud Dev was updated to
20240617 - NextcloudServices was updated to
1.1-beta20 - Nunti was updated to
v2.5.2 - Obtainium was updated to
1.1.11 - Odin was updated to
3.3.7 - Offi was updated to
13.0 - Open Camera was updated to
1.53.1 - Orgzly Revived was updated to
1.8.23 - Orion Viewer - Pdf & Djvu was updated to
0.94.2 - PasseGares was updated to
1.4.12 - Plant-it was updated to
0.7.3 - Podcini - Podcast instrument was updated to
5.5.0 - Power Ampache 2 was updated to
1.00-60-fdroid - Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to
1.22.1 - ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to
5.3.93.0 - Quote Unquote was updated to
4.40.3-fdroid - RiMusic was updated to
0.6.39 - Ricochlime was updated to
1.9.0 - Roc Droid was updated to
0.2.2 - RunnerUp was updated to
2.7.0.1 - SMS Import / Export was updated to
2.4.0 - Saber was updated to
0.23.3 - Screenshot Tile (NoRoot) was updated to
2.9.0 - Shiori was updated to
1.33.01 - Simple Search was updated to
2.0.1 - SimpleTextEditor was updated to
1.26.1 - Sobuu was updated to
1.1.1 - SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to
1.13 - Squeezer was updated to
2.3.6 - Status Bar Speedometer was updated to
3.11.0 - Tailscale was updated to
1.68.0-t52ddf0d01-g4528ee61760 - The Light was updated to
3.85 - Thor was updated to
1.6.4 - Thumb-Key was updated to
3.2.4 - TorrServe was updated to
MatriX.133t.F-Droid - Tournant was updated to
2.7.1 - Track & Graph was updated to
4.0.3 - Traditional T9 was updated to
33.0 - URLCheck was updated to
2.16 - Unciv was updated to
4.12.0-patch1 - Vespucci was updated to
20.0.3.0 - Voyager for Lemmy was updated to
2.12.4 - Wulkanowy was updated to
2.7.0 - Wuxia Learn - Learn Chinese was updated to
1.1.0 - Xed Editor was updated to
1.1.9 - Xtra was updated to
2.32.4 - Youamp was updated to
1.0.0-alpha07 - Your local weather was updated to
6.0.1 - Zulip was updated to
27.229 - aTalk was updated to
4.1.1 - baresip was updated to
60.4.0 - baresip+ was updated to
47.5.0 - campfire was updated to
0.3 - ente Photos was updated to
0.9.0 - floccus bookmark sync was updated to
5.2.2 - huggingAssist was updated to
1.9 - neutriNote CE was updated to
4.5.2 - openHAB Beta was updated to
3.13.4-beta - whoBIRD was updated to
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