Did you enjoy the last #EU #DSA survey? We heard you did not, so how about a new one? 😜 This one is all about the privacy and security concerns, content moderation practices, algorithmic influences, complaint mechanisms, and the regulatory environment of app stores, and stuff. Ready? Go: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/b26da086-b942-499d-9e99-bac3bf4fc3bc /PS: No that we'd want to sway your vote, but... at 36 if you say Yes then 37 opens 🎆

We are celebrating 10 years of #reproducible builds in #FDroid this year, and we are overhauling the way the build server works. Thanks to the funding from #NLnet, #NGI #NGI0 part of #HorizonEurope, and your donations, our work is intended to power the future of #FDroid for the next ten and more. Dig deeper for the why and the how in this 15 mins post:

Making reproducible builds visible | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Our lives are moving into the digital realm, our private data flows through all sorts of software. As software controls more and more of our lives,...

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live: * #Nextcloud store shenanigans * #Cheogram in Space-s * #DeltaChat and #ArcaneChat fork * #FluffyChat feature full * #Tachiyomi successor #Kahon * #Inure #reproducible * #PasswordStore fork * #ReplicantOS and #NGI * #NewPipe out of the 360p jail + 12 new apps + 195 updates Go beyond clouds in

Happiness is an update | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 15 May 2025, Week 20 Community News Looks like not all Nextcloud mobile users are as happy as they c...

#EU wants to ask app (and app store) developers about their interactions with app stores (specially of the very big kind) in the context of the Digital Services Act #DSA The study aims to better understand content moderation practices, recommender systems, advertising mechanisms, and emerging challenges within the app ecosystem. If you have 15-20 minutes to share your experience, make sure you visit the link until Tuesday May 27th, 2025. Go: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/c7161c9d-9db5-c881-5f50-7faab4af7387

The signs were in plain sight: ✅ having a dev funded to work on the Client ✅ our support of #NGI ✅ #FDroid being a key partner in #Mobifree ✅ splitting client functionality into libs ✅ wrestling with #targetsdk ✅ dipping our toes into #MaterialDesign What do all these compound to? All revealed in

NGI Mobifree funds client app overhaul | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

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 ...

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live: * #NLNet funds more projects * #ElementX fixes a #CVE * #GadgetBridge offline #GPX maps & headphones * #Linphone #SIP build fix * v8 #Mindustry beta * more #KeyMapper features * #WikiReader improvements * #OpenCamera preview shots, lens selector, #UltraHDR + 15 new apps + 199 updates Drop by

A waterfall of acronyms | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

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 ...

Time flies when you're busy building apps, but not all #FDroid contributors need to wrangle Python, escape YAML or restart Gitlab pipelines. If you want to have a saying in the betterment of F-Droid, from the inside, you are welcomed to nominate yourself or somebody else you find worthy for a Board of Directors seat. You have time until April 14th, so head to:

F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2025 | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

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 t...

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live: - #afreerdp / #freerdp big update for your #rdp needs - #DeltaChat & #ArcaneChat message edits & deletes - Hello new #Fossify Calc, goodbye old Calc - #Jami welcomes #Skype refugees + 7 new apps + 231 updates & 170 archived apps Scroll by

What were you installing back in March 2015? | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

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 rel...

Using #FOSS apps is the first step, the next one is having those that are reproducibly built. Is your keyboard #reproducible, verified or none? Find out in

Even my keyboard is built reproducibly | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Two years ago, almost to the day, we’ve spoken about how “VPN trust requires free software” outlining the importance of reproducible builds i...

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live: - #SherpaTTS levels up the #TextToSpeech #FOSS game - #OrganicMaps is even more user focused - #Tubular is live, a #NewPipe fork that knows tricks Get the full story on more than 153 apps at

Hearing your device speak | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 06 Feb 2025, Week 6 Community News From a prolific FOSS dev @woheller69 we now have another app, She...