Statuses updated and a keyboard
Posted on Sep 26, 2024 by Licaon_Kter
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...
TL;DR: News about 571 apps
Posted on Sep 19, 2024 by linsui
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...
Encode your nostalgia
Posted on Sep 12, 2024 by paulali
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 12 Sep 2024, Week 37 Community News Arx Libertatis, An improved, cross-platform and open source engine for Arx Fatalis, a 2002 first-person role-playing game / dungeon crawler / immersive sim was just added, bringing another cult classic to the Android screen. You’ll...
Voice your updates
Posted on Sep 05, 2024 by Licaon_Kter
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 05 Sep 2024, Week 36 F-Droid Core The F-Droid Client version served by the huge blue button of the main homepage of the F-Droid website was just updated from 1.17 to the latest stable 1.20. As week 14 TWIF forebode, and the...
It's all about self-hosting it
Posted on Aug 29, 2024 by linsui
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 29 Aug 2024, Week 35 Community News As a ghost from the troubled Internet past, a blog post about Geddit, A Reddit client without using their API, appeared last week, where the developer tells the story of how Geddit was born. Mattermost...
Playing with old apps
Posted on Aug 22, 2024 by paulali
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 22 Aug 2024, Week 34 Community News We don’t have the habit of recommending apps (besides F-Droid and F-Droid Basic clients as expected 😛), but this week a common theme was brought up, “what’s up with VLC?”. We’ve pinged the VLC team...
FOSS contributors' first step: translation
Posted on Aug 15, 2024 by Licaon_Kter
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 15 Aug 2024, Week 33 Community News Translations are the easiest way to help your favourite apps, not only that they’ll look nice when you use them in your language, but also this enables more users even if they don’t know the...
Stories about grants, stats and JCenter
Posted on Aug 08, 2024 by linsui
TWIF generated on Thursday, 08 Aug 2024, Week 32 F-Droid core It’s no secret that F-Droid continues to live and thrive thanks in part to you, the users that donate, but also in part thanks to different grants we’ve received along these 14 years of existence. Our recent post covered...