Encode your nostalgia
Posted on Sep 12, 2024 by paulali
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 12 Sep 2024, Week 37 Community News Arx Libertatis, An improved, cross-platform and open source engine for Arx Fatalis, a 2002 first-person role-playing game / dungeon crawler / immersive sim was just added, bringing another cult classic to the Android screen. You’ll...
Voice your updates
Posted on Sep 05, 2024 by Licaon_Kter
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 05 Sep 2024, Week 36 F-Droid Core The F-Droid Client version served by the huge blue button of the main homepage of the F-Droid website was just updated from 1.17 to the latest stable 1.20. As week 14 TWIF forebode, and the...
It's all about self-hosting it
Posted on Aug 29, 2024 by linsui
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 29 Aug 2024, Week 35 Community News As a ghost from the troubled Internet past, a blog post about Geddit, A Reddit client without using their API, appeared last week, where the developer tells the story of how Geddit was born. Mattermost...
Playing with old apps
Posted on Aug 22, 2024 by paulali
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 22 Aug 2024, Week 34 Community News We don’t have the habit of recommending apps (besides F-Droid and F-Droid Basic clients as expected 😛), but this week a common theme was brought up, “what’s up with VLC?”. We’ve pinged the VLC team...
FOSS contributors' first step: translation
Posted on Aug 15, 2024 by Licaon_Kter
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 15 Aug 2024, Week 33 Community News Translations are the easiest way to help your favourite apps, not only that they’ll look nice when you use them in your language, but also this enables more users even if they don’t know the...
Stories about grants, stats and JCenter
Posted on Aug 08, 2024 by linsui
TWIF generated on Thursday, 08 Aug 2024, Week 32 F-Droid core It’s no secret that F-Droid continues to live and thrive thanks in part to you, the users that donate, but also in part thanks to different grants we’ve received along these 14 years of existence. Our recent post covered...
A streamlined and sustainable app deployment approach with Mobifree
Posted on Aug 05, 2024 by HStill
Imagine you created your very first app. You developed the concept, worked tirelessly on the key features, design, tested it and fixed the bugs. The moment has finally arrived and you are ready to share your creation with the world. But how? App stores are a great tool for sharing...
Travel and translate, the mobile life
Posted on Aug 01, 2024 by paulali
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 01 Aug 2024, Week 31 F-Droid core One feature that was seldom in the limelight is HTTP Basic Auth for repositories, meaning you can have your own private repo that only trusted users can access. Until the recent repository UI overhaul, when...