This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Wednesday, 23 Oct 2024, Week 43 F-Droid core Just after the last TWIF was published we thought it will be just another nice and chill weekend, little did we know that things will just light up. Like Client issues after Android upgrades, users...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 17 Oct 2024, Week 42 F-Droid core I hope this note finds you in good health. By the time this post reaches you, final F-Droid Client and Basic 1.21.0 went live, but not yet suggested. Did you test the alpha releases? No?...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 10 Oct 2024, Week 41 F-Droid core Nothing new to add, just that we hope more users get a chance to test 1.21.0-alpha1, and if you did not already, do peruse the full announcement from last week. The more of you test...

I believe privacy and freedom are fundamental rights and should be available to everyone in the world. A few years ago, I’ve started translating FOSS apps on Weblate, which has evolved to me being a maintainer of many projects, including F-Droid. Now I’ve finally finished reviewing all website strings and...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 03 Oct 2024, Week 40 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.21.0-alpha1 bringing a fix for a long standing pain point: background index updating. During Android’s development, Google restricted more and more when and how often apps can do...

Back in 2010, Ciaran Gultnieks created F-Droid to bring free software to Android. It has since grown to have many contributors from around the world, millions of users, and its own legal entity with an esteemed Board of Directors. F-Droid has become its own thing bigger than any one of...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 26 Sep 2024, Week 39 Community News F-Droid Build Status was updated to 5.6.4 and no one will get this update. Why? Well, the app is now built reproducibly so if you have it installed you need to uninstall it and then...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 19 Sep 2024, Week 38 Community News APatch, The patching of Android kernel and Android system, is a new powerful Root tool, which is similar to Magisk but also provides more features. It supports Magisk modules and it runs in the kernel...