Back in April we asked you for a helping hand regarding legal matters. We got plenty of people willing to help or at least to guide us towards other like-minded projects that might have the experience we were looking for. Our of those discussions #FDroid will publish a series of posts that go through all the lessons learned and we hope these will be useful to all #FLOSS #FOSS contributors, maintainers, and developers out there. Take a 10 minute break for the intro:
Strengthening F-Droid
In April, we published a piece outlining some of the work underway to help strengthen the F-Droid project against unjust intrusion, interception an...
The #EU #DMA compliance workshops exist to regulate gatekeepers powers, yet both #Apple and #Google treat them like "product launches" where non-engineers show slides and can never answer questions. The Android play-field, instead of taking steps to respect the DMA, Google shrinks what Android even is. If Apple can own its closed iOS, Google figured they can privatize Android? Maybe it being #FOSS for 17 years was just a glitch and now Android is out of the famous Google betas? 1/2
The last index update triggered a bug in the official F-Droid client, and Basic: you'll see a toast with "not nullable: icon" and the index won't update. We have reverted the related change and working on fixing the bug. The fix will take about two build cycles to be deployed, so about one week. You can get the latest index now by cleaning app data or reinstalling the client, but you'd have to setup your 3-rd party repos and their priorities. We are tracking this in:
GitLab
1.23.0 - `not nullable: icon` on index update (#3054) ยท Issues ยท F-Droid / Client ยท GitLab
Trying to update index This is on Stable, Debug or Basic Debug. F-Droid index is NOT up to date. nightly index at...
While we don't promote non-#FOSS apps, we can salute #Brave for setting up their own #FDroid repository for #BraveBrowser. @npub1t4gt...ml9t how about a fully FOSS browser in f-droid.org next? ๐Ÿ˜‰ How to add? Follow:
Brave
Official Brave F-Droid repository now available | Brave
Our new officially-supported repository allows users of the F-Droid client to install the browser and receive automatic updates without requiring G...
This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live: * Bimba test version out too soon * "Co" stands for "community" in #CoMaps * A better #DolphinEmulator * Get your #FediPlan companion * #FennecFDroid steady improvements * Unified experiences in #Godot Editor * New #Luanti is out #MineTest * #MonoclesChat read if you use Tor * #StatusIM blogs a lot * #UnifiedPush in #Forkgram + 7 new apps + 179 updates & more Plan your next update:
Planned posts and planned games | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 12 Jun 2025, Week 24 Community News Bimba was updated to 3.10.0-alpha but this was an unstable versi...
Did you enjoy the last #EU #DSA survey? We heard you did not, so how about a new one? ๐Ÿ˜œ 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:
EUSurvey - Survey unavailable
EUSurvey is an online survey-management system built for the creation and publishing of globally accessible forms, such as user satisfaction survey...
 /PS: No that we'd want to sway your vote, but... at 36 if you say Yes then 37 opens ๐ŸŽ†
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:
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EUSurvey is an online survey-management system built for the creation and publishing of globally accessible forms, such as user satisfaction survey...
The signs were in plain sight: โœ… having a dev funded to work on the Client โœ… our support of #NGI โœ… #FDroid being a key partner in #Mobifree โœ… splitting client functionality into libs โœ… wrestling with #targetsdk โœ… 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 ...