Vote now and make F-Droid a High Priority for FSF
Posted on Dec 18, 2020 by
Licaon_Kter
At the end of October 2020 the FSF Committee began the review of the High Priority Projects free software list and they need your feedback by January 8.
Given how the focus of this whole year ended up about human mobility and the computers that help us do our work...
Repomaker is back!
Posted on Nov 19, 2020 by
eighthave
Repomaker received a big update to make it maintainable. It now works with fdroidserver 1.1.10 and any Django 1.11.x version, and is almost done being ported to Django 2.x. The flatpak package has been updated, and now also works on Raspberry Pi (or any ARM).
The easiest way to...
Adding React Native Apps to F-Droid
Posted on Oct 14, 2020 by
tasn
React Native is a popular open-source app development framework that makes it easy to build cross-platform applications using the platform’s native UI components. This makes it an ideal choice for developers building apps for all platforms.
That’s why we chose it when we started working on the new
Publishing an F-Droid Repo using a Hardware Security Module
Posted on Oct 5, 2020 by
Bubu
The following is a tutorial for publishing apps through F-Droid using a hardware security module (HSM). The HSM used in this post is a Nitrokey HSM2. Other hardware tokens should have similar functionality, but you’ll have to use different commands for interacting with the HSM.
Storing signing keys in...
Happy 10 Years of F-Droid!
Posted on Sep 29, 2020 by
F-Droid
10 years ago today, Ciaran Gultnieks posted the first blog post on f-droid.org 1, kicking off 10 years of bringing free software to Android. From early on, F-Droid also had a strong commitment to privacy and marked Anti-Features to help users choose software that most respects the users. Thanks to...
Donations with Free Software
Posted on Jul 20, 2020 by
F-Droid
When F-Droid started back in 2010, there were no free software options for donations. So we used the standard proprietary services, and received enough donations to keep things running. Thank you for your continued support over the years! In recent years, two solid free software funding platforms have been established:...
.yml is the only metadata format, the others will be removed
Posted on Jul 2, 2020 by
F-Droid
Back in September, we announced that the F-Droid ecosystem is moving fully to YAML formats. That means the old .txt custom metadata format as well as the JSON metadata format will be entirely removed from all the tools, like fdroidserver. The upcoming 2.0 release of fdroidserver will only...
Android updates and TLS connections
Posted on May 29, 2020 by
ByteHamster
Android device vendors are known for their short support periods. They only provide updates for a limited time or even ship devices with old Android versions. Developers then have to deal with a fragmented distribution of Android versions. Android 4.x is still used by around 2% of the active devices...
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