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This Week in F-Droid

TWIF curated on Thursday, 11 Dec 2025, Week 50

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We had great reach with our “F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Decree” post and its sequel, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading”, to raise awareness about the future of Android. But we hope we broke out of our tech-savvy bubble, so everyone hears about what the proposed changes entail, and how F-Droid’s goal, of freedom for all users, is truly the way forward.

But if you didn’t read those yet, or you want an audio/video to go along, our own board member and writer, Marc Prud’hommeaux, recently had an 1 hour interview that covers it.

While the interview is one month old by now, and Google announced some initial modifications to how this will presumably work, we still believe these are not enough and device owners need full control and freedom.

The keepandroidopen.org site has all the info, a call to action and resources so you can make your voice heard.

Community News

Which apps make your top trio? In this 5 minutes post, in French, we get a glimpse of one Luxembourg sysadmins preferences.

39C3: Power Cycles, the 39th Chaos Communication Congress will take place between 27-30 December in CCH Hamburg. The 39C3 Schedule app was updated to 1.73.0 so make sure to have it ready.

ArcaneChat was updated to 2.33.0 to add some fixes and polish. But hidden there in plain site, there’s a boring change “New experimental feature: several addresses per profile” which sounds rather bland, what are profiles anyway? Well… this new option allows one to change the relay (read it as server) used to send and receive messages. This is a nice feature and you might need to read the guide to get the gist on how to switch them. Delta Chat will get updated soon too.

FOSS Warn was updated to 1.0.1 and some issues were fixed for UnifiedPush integration, hence Conversations and forks like Cheogram or monocles chat can be used as distributors again.

MediLog was updated to 3.5.0 and we also added MediLog (Reproducible build) signed by the developer.

Thunderbird Beta for Testers was updated to 16.0b2 and the devs posted their monthly report with the bonus 40+ mins video. Shock news: Material/You is not good enough and will be dropped!

Newly Added Apps

8 more apps were newly added
  • LinxShare: Share images on your device with others through your self-hosted linx server
  • LiveGalGame: An amazing app that lets you chat with girls like a GalGame
  • Lux Alarm: Wake up with light! This alarm can only be turned off when your room is bright
  • Messages: A fast messaging app designed to make conversations simple and effortless (A fork of QUIK SMS; description and app info will get fixed in the next version)
  • PlayHex: Play Hex board game online
  • Poker Payout: Professional poker tournament management with payouts and timers
  • Running Services Monitor: Monitor running services on your Android device with Shizuku integration
  • Tensy: Select numbers that sum to ten

Downgraded Apps

1 apps were downgraded
  • Clock was downgraded from 2.27 to 2.26 as we picked up an unstable version.

Updated Apps

154 more apps were updated
(expand for the full list)

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