This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 29 Aug 2024, Week 35 Community News As a ghost from the troubled Internet past, a blog post about Geddit, A Reddit client without using their API, appeared last week, where the developer tells the story of how Geddit was born. Mattermost...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 22 Aug 2024, Week 34 Community News We don’t have the habit of recommending apps (besides F-Droid and F-Droid Basic clients as expected 😛), but this week a common theme was brought up, “what’s up with VLC?”. We’ve pinged the VLC team...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 15 Aug 2024, Week 33 Community News Translations are the easiest way to help your favourite apps, not only that they’ll look nice when you use them in your language, but also this enables more users even if they don’t know the...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 08 Aug 2024, Week 32 F-Droid core It’s no secret that F-Droid continues to live and thrive thanks in part to you, the users that donate, but also in part thanks to different grants we’ve received along these 14 years of existence. Our recent post covered...

Imagine you created your very first app. You developed the concept, worked tirelessly on the key features, design, tested it and fixed the bugs. The moment has finally arrived and you are ready to share your creation with the world. But how? App stores are a great tool for sharing...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 01 Aug 2024, Week 31 F-Droid core One feature that was seldom in the limelight is HTTP Basic Auth for repositories, meaning you can have your own private repo that only trusted users can access. Until the recent repository UI overhaul, when...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 25 Jul 2024, Week 30 F-Droid core Recently, we rolled out a new AntiFeature - Tethered Network Services. It’s introduced to solve a long-standing issue in the NonFreeNet AntiFeature: What does “NonFree” here mean? All these years we have marked apps relying...

Next Generation Internet (NGI) funding has enabled substantial development of F-Droid - with the support of NGI grants via NLnet, F-Droid is now better at protecting users’ privacy, can further improve security-enhancing ‘reproducible builds’ for mobile applications and gives users more choice on where they download them from. The positive...