This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 03 Oct 2024, Week 40 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.21.0-alpha1 bringing a fix for a long standing pain point: background index updating. During Android’s development, Google restricted more and more when and how often apps can do...

Back in 2010, Ciaran Gultnieks created F-Droid to bring free software to Android. It has since grown to have many contributors from around the world, millions of users, and its own legal entity with an esteemed Board of Directors. F-Droid has become its own thing bigger than any one of...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 26 Sep 2024, Week 39 Community News F-Droid Build Status was updated to 5.6.4 and no one will get this update. Why? Well, the app is now built reproducibly so if you have it installed you need to uninstall it and then...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 19 Sep 2024, Week 38 Community News APatch, The patching of Android kernel and Android system, is a new powerful Root tool, which is similar to Magisk but also provides more features. It supports Magisk modules and it runs in the kernel...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 12 Sep 2024, Week 37 Community News Arx Libertatis, An improved, cross-platform and open source engine for Arx Fatalis, a 2002 first-person role-playing game / dungeon crawler / immersive sim was just added, bringing another cult classic to the Android screen. You’ll...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 05 Sep 2024, Week 36 F-Droid Core The F-Droid Client version served by the huge blue button of the main homepage of the F-Droid website was just updated from 1.17 to the latest stable 1.20. As week 14 TWIF forebode, and the...

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...