Free software enables more efficient ways to run large scale software. F-Droid can serve so many people with minimal resources because of this super power. Instead of each project handling development and maintenance of the whole thing, free software enables sharing development and maintenance. This is why F-Droid is built...

We just completed migrating one more key piece of our infrastructure to a completely automated setup: the “originserver”. The originserver is the holder of all of the public files for the website and the f-droid.org repository. It is also responsible for pushing out the updates to all of the primary...

The official client app is an essential piece of the F-Droid ecosystem. Therefore, the Calyx Institute as a member and benefactor of the F-Droid community offered to sponsor a maintainer position to ensure continuous maintenance of the client app independent of grants or available volunteer time. The Calyx Institute suggested...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 14 Sep 2023 ,Week 37 F-Droid core news TWIF is back! After a long break, TWIF is back and it needs your input. If you have any news whatsoever that you feel might be of benefit to the wider F-Droid community, you are encouraged to post...

Earlier this year, we reported about our progress concerning reproducible builds. Meanwhile, more and more apps are using this; you can find some statistics here: compared to about 20 apps in November 2022, the number of apps being built reproducibly went up by almost a factor of 10 to around...

Seven core contributors and one board member met in Scotland, the birthplace of F-Droid, for the first in-person F-Droid team meeting. One of the most pressing tasks we needed to take care of was setting up a contributor-controlled backup of all of our signing keys. The requirements made it necessary...

We’ve created a prototype of a progressive web app for browsing F-Droid repositories. It’s built with Flutter, which is really great for working in rapid development cycles. It also allows us to make it look and feel like a modern Android app. As a trade-off the web-app is pretty big...

When we built the next-generation F-Droid client, we rewrote our code to fit into re-usable libraries, so other projects can make use of F-Droid technology with minimal hassle. The libraries So far, we have published three libraries. Two of them are written in Kotlin multi-platform, so they can be used...