Donations are a key part of what keeps F-Droid independent and reliable and our latest hardware update is a direct result of your support. Thanks to donations from our incredible community, F-Droid has replaced one of its most critical pieces of infrastructure, our core server hardware. It was overdue for...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 26 Dec 2025, Week 52 Community News AFWall+ was updated to 4.0.1. We missed a minor fixes version last year, hence this update comes after a two year pause in development. This classic app has now Material Design, new rules management, logging,...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 18 Dec 2025, Week 51 Community News Tech Policy Press has a series of posts titled “Symposium on Digital Markets Act (DMA) Enforcement” that you might find interesting, since you read this. The latest one, “Making the Digital Markets Act Developer-Friendly”, touches...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 11 Dec 2025, Week 50 F-Droid core 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...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 05 Dec 2025, Week 49 F-Droid core Since F-Droid is an Android “package manager”, we advise users to “use the F-Droid client to get timely updates and info on new apps” as, foremost, we want to provide the best experience on the...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 27 Nov 2025, Week 48 F-Droid core In the process of doing all this development work, we ran mass rebuilds of the whole collection of apps, killing two birds with one stone. First, it served to test our new build automation with...

15 years ago this month, @CiaranG started “an experiment in automated building from source”. And so F-Droid began to automate building all our apps from source. Before this, apps were either built manually or the binary files were fetched from trusted developers like Mozilla. Automating the build process was a...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 20 Nov 2025, Week 47 Community News MBCompass was updated to 1.1.11 after we missed three versions. What’s new? Many new UI improvements and fixes. @CodeDoctor brings us a point one: Butterfly was updated to 2.4.1 with the biggest set of bug...