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Old new apps and new old apps

TWIF generated on Thursday, 18 Jan 2024, Week 3 Community News @linsui pings us about: Element - Secure Messenger and its update to 1.6.10. Yes, we skipped a version as upstream is busy working on their X enhanced app. Stay tuned for that upgrade coming sometime soon. Until then, this...

Build your phone app on your phone

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...

New year, new gallery app and NewPipe news

TWIF generated on Thursday, 04 Jan 2024, Week 1 Community News @Licaon_Kter brings news from suite lands: As last year’s TWIF49 covered, the beloved Simple Mobile Tools suite of apps has an unclear future, FOSS-wise at least. This week we have two pieces of news about that. The bad news,...

Encrypted SMS and malware scanning

TWIF generated on Thursday, 28 Dec 2023, Week 52 Community News @Licaon_Kter celebrates: Jami was updated to 20231221-01 and its developer team is running an end of the year donation campaign, so if you enjoy using it or just want to encourage their work, you can donate here. Hypatia, a...

Fennec, now with add-ons and WebAuth

TWIF generated on Thursday, 21 Dec 2023, Week 51 Community News @Licaon_Kter signals: Fennec F-Droid was updated to 120.1.1 bringing experimental FIDO2 WebAuthn support that does not depend on proprietary Google libraries but can be used with FOSS microG if available. This is based on more than a year’s work...

More repro apps, featuring Threema, and more monopolies

TWIF generated on Thursday, 14 Dec 2023, Week 50 F-Droid core F-Droid and Basic were updated to 1.19.0-alpha3: IPFS Gateway settings are now in the Proxy section and no longer in Expert Mode Expert Mode Category header now shows which preferences belong to Expert Mode Unify full and basic preferences.xml...

Simple tools need complex maintenance

TWIF generated on Thursday, 07 Dec 2023, Week 49 F-Droid core @hans brings news from the mirror universe: We reviewed lots of f-droid.org mirrors, and selected some new ones to add: http://dotsrccccbidkzg7oc7oj4ugxrlfbt64qebyunxbrgqhxiwj3nl6vcad.onion/fdroid http://mirror.ossplanetnyou5xifr6liw5vhzwc2g2fmmlohza25wwgnnaw65ytfsad.onion/fdroid https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/android/fdroid (Germany) https://mirror.kumi.systems/fdroid (Austria) https://mirror.level66.network/fdroid (Germany) https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fdroid (Denmark) https://opencolo.mm.fcix.net/fdroid (California) In the future we plan to add...

Delta chat and end-to-end encryption

TWIF generated on Thursday, 30 Nov 2023, Week 48 F-Droid Core There is a new release of F-Droid. It is still in alpha at version 1.19.0-alpha2 and it has the following improvements: New settings to give user control over IPFS HTTP Gateways Enable per-app language selection (@licaon-kter) Material Design 2...

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