One twenty for everyone
Posted on Jun 13, 2024 by Licaon_Kter
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 13 Jun 2024, Week 24 F-Droid core As a low key event last week, F-Droid Client and Basic 1.20 were marked as suggested, so everyone who can run it (Android 6 or later) should update and enjoy the new features. Since the...
Dozens of new apps
Posted on Jun 06, 2024 by linsui
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 06 Jun 2024, Week 23 Community News Kiwix, Offline Wikipedia reader, was downgraded in September 2022 to a very old version as newer ones were depending on proprietary libraries. Last week developers asked the team to archive the app as the data...
Want the Universe?
Posted on May 30, 2024 by paulali
TWIF generated on Thursday, 30 May 2024, Week 22 F-Droid core Back in October 2023, we’ve talked about vulnerability patching and listed some 7 apps that might have been affected. Truth is, there were not one but three separate issues, with their own CVE identifiers, that needed to be looked...
Finally an alternative to Big Tech, your new open-source mobile ecosystem - Mobifree
Posted on May 24, 2024 by HStill
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to engage in a mobile ecosystem outside of the watchful eye of the Big Tech giants and gatekeepers? A system that includes everything from operating systems, to app stores, to cloud services, messaging apps, email servers and more? A system that...
Relatively good news
Posted on May 23, 2024 by Licaon_Kter
TWIF generated on Thursday, 23 May 2024, Week 21 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic version 1.20 have been live for the last 10 days. While we appreciate the praise for the new repository management improvements, we like to have more and more users willing to test the edge cases....
Managing apps in a decentralized way
Posted on May 16, 2024 by linsui
TWIF generated on Thursday, 16 May 2024, Week 20 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.20.0, and our own @grote speaks at length about the repository management overhaul in a separate post here. Community News Thore Göbel has some slides to share: I gave a talk “Introduction...
Repository Overhaul in new Client 1.20
Posted on May 16, 2024 by grote
Since the early days of 2010, F-Droid is a repository of apps (not an app store). Its client app always allowed to add third-party repositories. Today, there are hundreds of repositories and we are improving how the client app is handling those: the official repository is preferred by default the...
When your device lies about its compatibility
Posted on May 09, 2024 by paulali
TWIF generated on Thursday, 09 May 2024, Week 19 Community News SimpleX Chat was updated to 5.6.1 but only for armv7 compatible devices. That “only … compatible” sounded odd to you? Well, it’s a interesting story. First, the arm64 build failed, upstream fixed it and next version builds as we...