A waterfall of acronyms
Posted on Apr 24, 2025 by
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...
Material Design 3
Posted on Apr 23, 2025 by
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...
Decades of git
Posted on Apr 17, 2025 by
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...
Strengthening FOSS Legal Resilience
Posted on Apr 16, 2025 by
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...
Bike-shedding is over
Posted on Apr 10, 2025 by
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...
Forging paths
Posted on Apr 03, 2025 by
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...
F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2025
Posted on Mar 30, 2025 by
Nominations are now open for this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Board of Directors! Up to four new directors will be selected to serve for two years. You may nominate yourself or someone else (with their permission). Please send nominations by email to board-nominations@f-droid.org (one email per nomination) and make...
What were you installing back in March 2015?
Posted on Mar 27, 2025 by
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 27 Mar 2025, Week 13 Community News aFreeRDP was updated to 3.14.0 after almost a year of missed releases. The changelog is huge, filled with bug fixes, new features and some polished ones. Of note, F-Droid patches the build to make it...