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 ...