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One new, one broken, one beta, more updates

TWIF generated on Thursday, 08 Feb 2024, Week 6 F-Droid core Last week we talked about FOSDEM and the newer Client update. FOSDEM has ended, and we have a news post for that. So let’s focus on the Client for a bit. The big news was that 1.19.0 brings “unattended...

At FOSDEM

FOSDEM (Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting) is a non-commercial, volunteer-organized meeting where almost ten thousand people come together around free and open-source software development. It is aimed at developers and anyone interested in the free and open-source software movement. It really is totally open, anyone can just...

Unattended updates for everyone, 1.19 is here

TWIF generated on Thursday, 01 Feb 2024, Week 5 F-Droid core 🎉 We announced last year that client work is underway to bring it up to the target that future Android users and devs want. In the mean time we kept teasing at every opportunity the coming of F-Droid client...

Spring cleaning, file sharing and video editing

TWIF generated on Thursday, 25 Jan 2024, Week 4 Community News Are you going to FOSDEM between 3 & 4 February 2024 in Brussels? If you do, be sure to update the FOSDEM Companion app to version 2.2.1. Maybe even search for the F-Droid Team members while you’re there. Cheers!...

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...

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