Unattended updates for everyone, 1.19 is here
Posted on Feb 01, 2024 by linsui
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
Posted on Jan 25, 2024 by paulali
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
Posted on Jan 18, 2024 by Licaon_Kter
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
Posted on Jan 11, 2024 by linsui
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
Posted on Jan 04, 2024 by paulali
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
Posted on Dec 28, 2023 by Licaon_Kter
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
Posted on Dec 21, 2023 by linsui
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
Posted on Dec 14, 2023 by paulali
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...