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...

THE INTERNET, 20 March 2023 — The global F-Droid community is pleased to announce that it has officially accepted the merge request to adopt an official governance plan, and an inaugural board of directors consisting of community-nominated members. The community has been legally established through The Commons Conservancy, a Netherlands-based...

VPNs have become popular and are often touted as a tool to improve privacy. While this is sometimes true, it is important to tread carefully when choosing an VPN. A good place to start is looking at which VPN providers meet the requirements for running a trustworthy VPN service. A...