Contribute
F-Droid is powered by volunteers from all over the world. Whether you’re a developer, translator, tester, or just someone who loves helping others, there’s a place for you here.
Every contribution, big or small, helps keep F-Droid resilient, diverse, and open to everyone.
Ways You Can Contribute
Help the Community
You can help build a welcoming, empowered community by:
- Answering questions from new users or developers in our forum or chat
- Joining the conversation in our various channels
- Sharing tips and guides to make F-Droid easier to understand and use
- Following our Code of Conduct. We want this to be a positive and welcoming space for everyone
Report & Track Issues
Take part in making F-Droid stronger and more reliable by:
- Reporting bugs in our issue tracker
- Helping us manage issues by confirming bugs, adding labels, reviewing merge requests, and asking follow-up questions
Submit & Update Apps
Contribute to expanding user choice and app diversity by:
- Submitting a new app to the main repo, just read the inclusion policy first
- Requesting a new app via the Requests for Packaging tracker
- Writing metadata and submitting it through the F-Droid Data repo to speed up inclusion
- Keeping apps up to date by contributing metadata for new versions.
- Check out additional documentation for more info
Translate & Localize
Be part of making F-Droid accessible to our global community by:
- Improving F-Droid’s translations through our translation platform
- Adding missing languages and updating existing ones to keep F-Droid available to everyone
- Joining the translation forum section to collaborate with others
- Joining the conversation in our translation channels
- Check out additional documentation for more info
Test Releases
Ensure quality, security, and trust by:
- Testing F-Droid versions before they’re official.
- Reporting bugs for faster fixes
- Reviewing translation updates on staging.f-droid.org
Develop
Power innovation and open technology
Our code is hosted on GitLab. Main projects include:
- The Android client app
- Server tools for running repositories and building apps
- Metadata for apps in the main repository
- Website and documentation
Start by cloning a project and submitting a merge request. Want to see a bigger change? Join our forum or contact us to coordinate.
Maintain Infrastructure
Keep the ecosystem resilient and sustainable by:
- Helping manage servers, builders, our web portal, download areas, and deployments
- Providing support for our Ansible-based deployment
- Reach out via our channels or email at team@f-droid.org
Explore Data & Metrics
F-Droid has a rich dataset of build logs, app metadata, and APK details. Discover and share our impact in numbers by:
- Analysing app ecosystem trends to help us track growth and make predictions
- Exploring privacy/security metrics to help us improve services and communicate impact
- Building tools with our APIs to add to the existing ecosystem
Join the Movement!
- Start with our documentation
- Join the forum or contact us via our channels
- Find a task that matches your skills or just dive in and start asking questions!
F-Droid thrives because people like you care about freedom, privacy, and open source software.
