This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 02 May 2025, Week 18 F-Droid core Reproducible builds are taking over our Android FOSS world, but they might go under the radar. We push for them and guide developers of new apps to work towards this goal at inclusion time, and...

The F-Droid app was created in 2009 in the early days of Android and lots of its code is still that old. While the ecosystem has seen many drastic shifts, the F-Droid community heroically kept the app alive with band aids and chewing gum. However, this task becomes increasingly difficult....

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 24 Apr 2025, Week 17 Community News NLNet has been a great supporter of F-Droid and FOSS in general over the years, and we hope it can do its good work many eons ahead. Some more projects got funded this month, as...

The upcoming 1.23.0 release of the F-Droid app comes with a small visual refresh: It now uses the Material Design 3 library updating our app to the latest version of how Google thinks apps should look like. This also includes going from edge to edge, also known as taking up...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 17 Apr 2025, Week 16 F-Droid core Since last week, F-Droid and F-Droid Basic are enjoying the new Material UI look. Did the new palette change your view on this catalogue of FOSS applications? Should we make the colors more pastel? On...

As part of the FOSS Sustainability grant awarded to F-Droid by the Open Technology Fund (OTF) earlier this year, we’ve taken on the task of developing clear, community-aligned policies and legal strategies for handling take-down requests, government demands for user data, and compliance with emerging content moderation laws, such as...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 10 Apr 2025, Week 15 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.23.0-alpha0 starting the testing phase for that one feature users will actually notice, an UI refresh. This was work-in-progress for the last year thanks to the efforts of...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 03 Apr 2025, Week 14 Community News We were sad to announce that the Divest projects were shutting down back in December 2024, so we are glad to see GMaps WV being picked up by the very prolific @woheller69. An update will...