This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 27 Mar 2026, Week 13 Community News ArcaneChat was updated to 2.46.0 and Delta Chat to 2.47.0 and their changelogs almost match. The team is fairly active in the Fediverse and wants to make people realize that while end-to-end encryption for your...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 19 Mar 2026, Week 12 F-Droid core Even if not daring enough to install our latest client in development, we reiterate our message: get people to install F-Droid now, before it’s too late. It’s a small gesture that will prove to be...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 13 Mar 2026, Week 11 F-Droid core The countdown to September lock-down continues. Did you do your part? Did you contact your local representative yet? What did they answer? Did you install F-Droid on all you family’s members and close friends devices?...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 27 Feb 2026, Week 9 F-Droid core Banners aside, we’ve been working a lot behind the scenes on our website. Several functional and textual changes were on our TODO for years, just waiting for the right people to sit down and type...

Nominations are now open for this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Board of Directors! We are looking to select up to four volunteer directors to serve for two years each. You may nominate yourself or someone else (with their permission). Please send nominations by email to board-nominations@f-droid.org (one email per...

As we wrote about back in September in F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Decree, Google plans to enforce mandatory developer registration as a requirement for building and distributing Android applications worldwide. Android, currently an open platform where anyone can develop and distribute applications freely, is to become a locked-down platform,...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 20 Feb 2026, Week 8 F-Droid core During our talks with F-Droid users at FOSDEM26 we were baffled to learn most were relieved that Google has canceled their plans to lock-down Android. Why baffled? Because no such thing actually happened, the plans...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Monday, 09 Feb 2026, Week 7 F-Droid core On 31 January & 1 February 2026 in Brussels, Belgium, part of the F-Droid Team and Board were at FOSDEM 2026. We had a booth to present our project but also had flyers, stickers, camera...