Main changes since 0.38:

• New option to launch installed applications directly from the client.
• Improved repository update checking performance. (Including etag support)
• Fixed crashes when searching with 0 or 1 results in some languages (e.g. Italian)
• Lots of translation updates, and some new languages.

As usual, if you have problems or feature requests, talk to the issue tracker, join us in the Forum or visit #fdroid on FreeNode.

Changed since 0.33:

• Enhanced descriptions, including better formatting possibilities, external links, and direct links between apps.
• More performance improvements for low-end devices.
• Removed erroneous ‘touchscreen’ feature requirement – F-Droid doesn’t require one.
• Added a preference to ignore touchscreen requirement when determining compatibility, because a huge number of apps state this requirement when they don’t need one.
• Resolved the problem of the list of versions being inaccessible when the description was very long.
• Various improvements to the main list interface. In particular, the category selection now only applies to the Available list, not Installed or Updates, and the Available list no longer excludes installed apps.
• Apps excluded due to incompatibility or anti-feature selection will now still appear if already installed, and will case update notifications.
• Stopped cancelling downloads/updates when touching outside the progress dialog on ICS.
• Fixed a crash introduced in 0.33, when rotating while on the app details screen.
• The What’s New and Recently Updated categories now show the most recent items first.
• What’s New is now the default category on starting the app.
• Various translation updates.
• Additional features in Expert Mode (e.g. display of package IDs).

As usual, if you have problems or feature requests, talk to the issue tracker, join us in the Forum or visit #fdroid on FreeNode.

Changed since 0.31:

• Update notifications take you straight to the updates tab.
• Various performance improvements for slow devices. (More of these to come in the next release)
• More efficient memory usage when updating.
• Fixed occasional random crashes caused by database locks.
• Packages for the same app from multiple repos are merged, rather than one repo taking priority.
• Various translation updates and minor bug fixes.

As usual, if you have problems or feature requests, talk to the issue tracker, join us in the Forum or visit #fdroid on FreeNode.

Changed since 0.28:

• Fixed a bug in the French translation that caused a crash if a search returned only one result.
• Improved large screen support, resolving problems such as bad menu positioning.
• Fixed an overlap of the list onto the tabs in the main screen, on larger screens.
• Improved the background index update mechanism, resolving several minor problems, and occasional issues such as crashes when putting the app in the background during an update. Additionally, user-initiated updates can now be cancelled.

As usual, if you have problems or feature requests, talk to the issue tracker, join us in the Forum or visit #fdroid on FreeNode.

The main changes in this release are:

• New Categories within the client for What’s New (apps added in the last 14 days) and Recent Updates (apps updated in the last 14 days).
• Better theming and visuals on post-Gingerbread Android versions, tablets, etc.
• New clean-shaven icon.
• Lots of translation updates and new languages.

As usual, if you have problems or feature requests, talk to the issue tracker, join us in the Forum or visit #fdroid on FreeNode.

Previous versions of this have a serious security flaw. One feature of the software is that all SMS messages sent and received are stored in an encrypted database. However, due to an apparent oversight by the developer, all received messages are logged in plain text to the Android system log file. The end result is that rather than providing more security than the default setup, where a specific Android permission is required to access SMS message content, the messages are exposed in the log file, which is much easier to access and may even be inadvertently posted when sending debug logs to developers. Note that messages sent using end-to-end encryption (i.e. where the other party also uses TextSecure) are logged in encrypted form, so that content is NOT exposed in plain text.

The latest version of the application is 0.6.2, and the security flaw has now been fixed. However, the author has not published any source code corresponding to the binary he released of this version, and far from wishing to help anyone stuck with his previous disastrous mistake, he actually asked for the application to be removed from our repository as he wants to distribute it via Google Play only.

As such, I would recommend anyone running this application to cease to use it, and remove it.

This is a minor update release, with lots of translation updates and various small user interface improvements.

As usual, if you have problems or feature requests, talk to the issue tracker, join us in the Forum or visit #fdroid on FreeNode.

This release fixes a problem that caused notifications of updates to your installed applications to not be displayed.

As usual, if you have problems or feature requests, talk to the issue tracker, join us in the Forum or visit #fdroid on FreeNode.

Andor’s Trail is a classic RPG. Your brother, the Andor of the title, has disappeared, and via a series of interlinked quests your job is to find out what’s happened to him.

The action takes place on a tiled top-down map, which although not complete yet, covers a very large area with a wide variety of environments. The world is populated by various humans to help and hinder you in your quests, and the obligatory range of wild animals and mythical beasts, all of which deliver up the usual combination of gold, experience and dropped objects when killed via combat in the classic turn-based stats-driven style.

The conversation system works really well, and provides the means by which all the quests are driven. The dialogue can seem rather strange at times, but once you get used to the idea of wizened old wizards talking in the style of a grumpy American teenager, it’s not a big problem.

If you have any interest at all in this style of game, you’ll find a vast amount of gameplay here already, with a lot more to come as time goes on. Although this is definitely a work in progress, in terms of the map and quests being expanded, everything that already exists is very polished and not at all buggy.

Additionally, the availability of various editing tools for the maps and quest systems means it would be easy to get involved with the building of the world.

Vital Statistics

• License: GPL
• Web Site: http://andors.techby2guys.com/
• Source Code: http://code.google.com/p/andors-trail/

You can install it from the FDroid repository client, or download the APK directly if you prefer.

The latest release of the FDroid Repository Client, version 0.23, is now available. You can get it from the repository page or, if you already have an earlier version installed, just update.

The main changes in this release are:

• Categories – a filter at the top of the main screen now allows you to filter the current list by category of application.
• New ‘Dependencies’ anti-feature – on the preferences screen you can choose to filter out applications that have dependencies on non-free software.
• Various translation updates, and several new languages.

If you have problems or feature requests, talk to the issue tracker or visit #fdroid on FreeNode.