Trust, Privacy, and Free Software
Posted on 2019-05-05 by
We all put a lot of trust into our devices, more and more of our lives are run out of our phones and laptops. The communications we send to each other contain the most sensitive bits that we convey with our devices. The experience we all have when using these...
Decentralizing Localizations
Posted on 2019-04-19 by
App development is already well decentralized, and when F-Droid introduced metadata localization, we also made it possible to manage translations and graphics outside of F-Droid itself. Two tools, Fastlane and Triple-T, even provide a way to sync those between the app source repo, F-Droid, and Google Play. Using Weblate for...
Privacy Preserving Analytics
Posted on 2019-04-15 by
F-Droid always avoids tracking users as much as we can. We will never require an account, and we have put a lot of effort into making it hard for even the f-droid.org server to track users. We also recognize that usage data has value. It can be used to help...
TWIF 50: First Twitch app in F-Droid
Posted on 2019-04-04 by
This Week In F-Droid 50, Week 14, 2019
In this edition: Twire is the first Twitch app to arrive in F-Droid. There
are 4 new and 66 updated apps.
TWIF 49: The AnySoftKeyboard and Transdroid Torrent Search edition
Posted on 2019-03-31 by
This Week In F-Droid 49, Week 13, 2019
In this edition: Miscellaneous F-Droid work, AnySoftKeyboard and Transdroid
Torrent Search updated. There are 7 new
and 76 updated apps.
The Latest Tab now highlights good descriptions
Posted on 2019-03-26 by
In the F-Droid Android client, the Latest Tab is a place for F-Droid to showcase apps that pay extra attention to communicating to users. With the upcoming 1.6 release, the Latest Tab will now only show apps that meet certain criteria. The goal is to point users to apps where...
TWIF 48: guardianproject.info migration
Posted on 2019-03-23 by
This Week In F-Droid 48, Week 12, 2019
In this edition: The guardianproject.info
website migration effort is underway, and odds-and-ends. There are 6 new and 82
updated apps.
TWIF 46 and 47: Android SDK in Debian Buster and more website translations
Posted on 2019-03-15 by
This Week In F-Droid 47, Week 11, 2019
In this edition: App summary translations, looking for maintainer, android
SDK in Debian Buster accepted, more languages on the F-Droid website and
odds and ends. There are 21 new and 151 updated apps.