Happiness is an update
Posted on May 15, 2025 by
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 15 May 2025, Week 20 Community News Looks like not all Nextcloud mobile users are as happy as they can be, and here at F-Droid, we attend to their happiness by building Nextcloud, Nextcloud Dev, updated to 20250505 today, and a plethora...
Pins and map pins
Posted on May 08, 2025 by
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 08 May 2025, Week 19 Community News Jami was updated to 20250423-01 with a bit of polish. While that’s not gonna keep you busy for long, you can read the latest blog posts: “Can I call regular phone numbers with Jami?”, spoiler:...
Love all apps, 💔 or ✔️️
Posted on May 01, 2025 by
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 02 May 2025, Week 18 F-Droid core Reproducible builds are taking over our Android FOSS world, but they might go under the radar. We push for them and guide developers of new apps to work towards this goal at inclusion time, and...
NGI Mobifree funds client app overhaul
Posted on Apr 29, 2025 by
The F-Droid app was created in 2009 in the early days of Android and lots of its code is still that old. While the ecosystem has seen many drastic shifts, the F-Droid community heroically kept the app alive with band aids and chewing gum. However, this task becomes increasingly difficult....
A waterfall of acronyms
Posted on Apr 24, 2025 by
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 24 Apr 2025, Week 17 Community News NLNet has been a great supporter of F-Droid and FOSS in general over the years, and we hope it can do its good work many eons ahead. Some more projects got funded this month, as...
Material Design 3
Posted on Apr 23, 2025 by
The upcoming 1.23.0 release of the F-Droid app comes with a small visual refresh: It now uses the Material Design 3 library updating our app to the latest version of how Google thinks apps should look like. This also includes going from edge to edge, also known as taking up...
Decades of git
Posted on Apr 17, 2025 by
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 17 Apr 2025, Week 16 F-Droid core Since last week, F-Droid and F-Droid Basic are enjoying the new Material UI look. Did the new palette change your view on this catalogue of FOSS applications? Should we make the colors more pastel? On...
Strengthening FOSS Legal Resilience
Posted on Apr 16, 2025 by
As part of the FOSS Sustainability grant awarded to F-Droid by the Open Technology Fund (OTF) earlier this year, we’ve taken on the task of developing clear, community-aligned policies and legal strategies for handling take-down requests, government demands for user data, and compliance with emerging content moderation laws, such as...
