The F-Droid website is now also available in the Portuguese language (until now it was available only in Brazilian Portuguese variant), thanks to the efforts of the few volunteer contributors. The translation efforts are still in the works. People interested in giving a helping hand to complete them or to...

The congress of the Chaos Computer Club usually takes place in person but the pandemic forced it to become a virtual event called RC3. It is visited by many open-source enthusiasts, so it is no wonder that there are people who love F-Droid and FOSS Android apps in general. In...

One thing that made GNU/Linux distros so popular is that dependency management was built into the operating system. In Debian, all software installed is packaged as a .deb, and its all installed from the Debian repositories. Android has always lacked this kind dependency management, and many of us sorely miss...

The F-Droid website is now available in Romanian too, thanks to the efforts of the few volunteer contributors. While the main pages have been completed, the Docs and app descriptions are still in progress. Those interested in lending a hand for their completion or for improving existing translations, are encouraged...

Hello all, Given recent events, the F-Droid team has decided to migrate from Freenode to OFTC. We chose OFTC because several projects the F-Droid team is closely aligned to (such as Debian and Tor) have already been using OFTC for many years. This decision does not come easy to us,...

The F-Droid community has been discussing how to measure what apps are popular for a long time. From 2012 through 2015, some simple download counts were maintained in fdroiddata. We also sketched out an idea based on Debian’s “Popularity Contest”. Then we determined a safe way to gather logs from...

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...

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. We review all...