This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 25 Jul 2024, Week 30 F-Droid core Recently, we rolled out a new AntiFeature - Tethered Network Services. It’s introduced to solve a long-standing issue in the NonFreeNet AntiFeature: What does “NonFree” here mean? All these years we have marked apps relying...

Next Generation Internet (NGI) funding has enabled substantial development of F-Droid - with the support of NGI grants via NLnet, F-Droid is now better at protecting users’ privacy, can further improve security-enhancing ‘reproducible builds’ for mobile applications and gives users more choice on where they download them from. The positive...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 18 Jul 2024, Week 29 F-Droid core F-Droid Client and Basic 1.21.0-alpha0 are live, the changelog has all the fun stuff listed better than us rewriting it again, just read it here. Xiaomi (and friends) users running non-stock Android can rejoice, unattended...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 11 Jul 2024, Week 28 Community News Cartes IGN, Discover France another way and witness the land’s evolution, is a nice mapping app for France. Even if not French, the ways you can interact with the data is something to be experienced,...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 04 Jul 2024, Week 27 F-Droid core Reproducible builds are a new focus for F-Droid, we’re talking about 2 years new, versus all of our 14. And while it’s a harder path to take, about 9% of our hosted apps are signed...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 27 Jun 2024, Week 26 Community News Mumla, Voice chat on Mumble servers, was updated to 3.6.11, adding more languages and polish. While Mumla started as a fork of the discontinued Plumble, it’s actually now in a “maintenance only” mode as the...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 20 Jun 2024, Week 25 F-Droid core One feature of F-Droid Client since 2018 is the support of loading additional repositories from the custom partition, this is used by custom ROMs Android distributions to include their own repositories and provide updates for...

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...