Running emulator tests on GitLab CI
Posted on Feb 24, 2021 by
GitLab CI (Continuous Integration) has become an essential part of the F-Droid community processes. It is free software, built on open standards, and works well. The last piece that is missing from our testing ecosystem is a reliable way to run tests in actual Android emulators. Thanks to pushes from...
εxodus ETIP: The Canonical Database for Tracking Trackers
Posted on Feb 22, 2021 by
There is a new story to add to the list of horrors of Surveillance Capitalism: the United States’ Military is purchasing tracking and location data from companies that track many millions of people. Users must have real options for stepping out of “big tech”, where tracking dominates....
New language: Japanese
Posted on Feb 21, 2021 by
Thanks to the efforts of many volunteer contributors, the F-Droid website is now available in Japanese. While the main pages and tutorials have been completed, the FAQs and app descriptions are still in progress. Those interested in adding to these translations, or improving existing translations, are encouraged to contribute via...
APIs for All The Things!
Posted on Feb 5, 2021 by
For F-Droid to be trusted, we need to be transparent. Making it easy for people to pay attention to all the processes and systems we use helps us stay secure. One thing that Debian and other GNU/Linux distros have proven over the past decades is that transparency is an effective...
fdroidserver 2.0
Posted on Jan 31, 2021 by
fdroidserver is the core collection of tools for building apps, scanning them for issues or Anti-Features, collecting the resulting files into repos, and publishing them to the world. Today, a big update was released which has a large number of changes and updates that have been a long time...
Vote now and make F-Droid a High Priority for FSF
Posted on Dec 18, 2020 by
At the end of October 2020 the FSF Committee began the review of the High Priority Projects free software list and they need your feedback by January 8.
Given how the focus of this whole year ended up about human mobility and the computers that help us do our work...
Repomaker ist zurück!
Posted on Nov 19, 2020 by
Repomaker erhielt ein großes Update, um ihn wartbar zu machen. Er läuft jetzt mit fdroidserver 1.1.10 und jeder Version von Django 1.11.x, und ist fast fertig, um nach Django 2.x portiert zu werden. Das flatpak-Paket wurde aktualisiert und funktioniert nun auf einem Raspberry Pi (oder jedem ARM-Gerät).
Die einfachste...