Behind the scenes of F-Droid is a giant pile of automation to manage the process of building thousands of apps from source. This means checking out thousands of source repos, checking them all for updates, building and new releases, and securely signing them en masse. All builds are run in...

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Ethics has been central to the F-Droid community from the beginning, with a focus on free software, privacy and user control. A key part of F-Droid’s design is the lack of user accounts. There are no user accounts used, ever, in the process of delivering apps to users. This...

Guardian Project has been awarded a grant from the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) to work on decentralizing veracity and distribution (DVD). FFDW’s Mission is to “ensure the permanent preservation of humanity’s most important information by stewarding the development of open source software and open protocols for...

Благодаря усилиям нескольких добровольцев, сайт F-Droid теперь также доступен на португальском языке (до сих пор он был доступен только в варианте на бразильском португальском языке). Перевод всё еще нуждается в поддержке. Людям, заинтересованным в том, чтобы завершить его или улучшить существующие переводы, предлагаем внести вклад в развитие F-Droid через портал...

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....

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...

Благодаря усилиям нескольких контрибьюторов, сайт F-Droid теперь доступен и на румынском языке. Хотя перевод основных страниц завершен, работа над документами и описаниями приложений еще продолжается. Тех, кто заинтересован в помощи в их завершении или в улучшении существующих переводов, приглашаем внести свой вклад через F-Droid Weblate (https://hosted.weblate.org/languages/ro/f-droid/).