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This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 21 Nov 2024, Week 47 Community News Ever wanted to find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products? Maybe since 2013 and Snowden? Maybe since 2018 and GDPR? No matter your reason, or timeline, now you can either find or add your favorite to the european-alternatives.eu list. Some of them you see being mentioned weekly around here, in no particular order: Tuta Mail, Infomaniak kMail, OSMAnd, Organic Maps, koofr, Infomaniak kDrive, Nextcloud, Mastodon, Pleroma, Mullvad VPN, Proton VPN, Proton Pass, Threema, Codeberg, Firefox, Infomaniak kMeet, Tuta Calendar, Wire, Element, Mattermost, PeerTube. “Only on F-Droid”? Facundo Holzmeister on YouTube has a clip with their list of best Open Source Apps NOT on a centralized store. And the first one on the list is Smart Dock recently updated to 1.13.0. aTox was updated to 0.8.0 after almost 3 years. It’s mostly a bug fix release, but that’s progress too. Kodi was updated to 21.1, just a point release but with plenty of fixes OsmAnd~ was updated to 4.9.6 (and 4.9.7 will soon follow) and it brings a lot of nice features. My own favorite: a Vehicle Metrics plugin that lets you monitor your vehicle’s performance via OBD-II. We will mark this update as “suggested” after more testing, but you can always manually install it or toggle Beta updates from app details, to get it right now. Status was updated to 2.31.1, and if you care about “tokens” and “swaps” you might want to take a look at what’s new. UniPatcher was updated to 0.17.3 and brought back from Archive after 6 years. Besides the usual translations updates, there were a lot of fixes and improvements. VLC was updated to 3.6.0 Beta 3, so make sure you give it a good run, specially if you’ve seen any crashes. We talked about “team chat” solutions like Mattermost back in August, but did you know that Zulip, updated to 27.232, approaches the same goal by a different route? Their “topic based threading model” tries to allow users to better and easily follow conversations and improve communication. And of course, all this using a FLOSS server that you can self-host wherever you choose. Newly Added Apps 1 app was newly added MRT Buddy: Check your Dhaka MRT / Rapid Pass balances and trips instantly Updated Apps 111 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) AdAway was updated to 6.1.4 addy.io was updated to v5.4.2 ArcaneChat was updated to 1.48.6 Asteroid’s Revenge was updated to 0.12.1 BabbyPaint was updated to 0.0.5 Backup (PFA) was updated to 1.3.3 BikeSharingHub was updated to 2.1.3 bilimiao was updated to 2.3.11 BinEd - Hex Editor was updated to 0.2.3 Boxcars was updated to 1.4.6 Caffeinate was updated to 1.8.0 Cams was updated to 2.4 Canta was updated to 2.2.2 Capy Reader was updated to 2024.11.1075-dev Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated to 20.2 Chaka Book Reader was updated to 1.24.9a.10 Chance was updated to 1.3.0 ChordReader 2 was updated to 2.3.2 Ciyue was updated to 0.12.0 Clock was updated to 2.10 EnforceDoze was updated to 1.6.0 F-Droid Build Status was updated to 5.8.0 FairEmail was updated to 1.2248 Feeder was updated to 2.7.0 Fitness Calendar was updated to 2024.10.3 FlashDim - Dim your flashlight was updated to 2.3.6 floccus bookmark sync was updated to 5.3.4 Fossify Calendar was updated to 1.1.0 Gallery for PhotoPrism was updated to 1.32.0 Gauguin was updated to 0.32.0 Geto was updated to 1.16.4 Green: Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 4.0.38 ImapNotes3 was updated to v1.4-00 INSTEAD was updated to 0.9.2 Ion Launcher was updated to y24-v13 Jami was updated to 20241112-01 JMdict droid was updated to 1.3 K-9 Mail was updated to 8.1 Kepler-App was updated to 2.7.1 Keysh was updated to 0.1.7 Kitsune was updated to 2.0.3 LabLog was updated to 1.5 Launch Chat was updated to 1.3.0 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.1.7 LogFox was updated to 2.0.5 LxReader was updated to 0.8.0 (fdroid) Markor was updated to 2.13.1 Mastodon was updated to 2.9.1 Mattermost Beta was updated to 2.22.0 mensen was updated to 1.3.1 Mill was updated to 5.5.1 MinCal Widget was updated to 2.18.0 Mines3D was updated to 1.5.2 Mitch was updated to 2.3.2 Monly was updated to 2.12 MonsterMusic was updated to 0.1.41 mpv-android was updated to 2024-11-16-release MusicSearch was updated to 1.8.0 Musify was updated to 8.7.2 My Brain was updated to 2.0.4 My Expenses was updated to 3.9.1 neutriNote CE was updated to 4.5.4 NewsBlur was updated to 13.3.2 Nextcloud was updated to 3.30.5 Nextcloud Cookbook was updated to 0.23.0 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20241118 Nextcloud Talk was updated to 20.0.4 NotallyX - Quick Notes/Tasks was updated to 6.1.1 Obtainium was updated to 1.1.31 OCR (Tesseract) was updated to 2.4 Oinkoin was updated to 1.0.71 openHAB Beta was updated to 3.16.5-beta OpenMoneyBox was updated to 3.5.1.1 OpenTracks was updated to v4.14.1 openWorkout was updated to 1.3.2 Orgro was updated to 1.47.1 Orgzly Revived was updated to 1.8.31 OSM Dashboard (Offline) was updated to 5.0.1 OSM Dashboard for OpenTracks was updated to 5.0.1 OSMBugs was updated to 1-4-3 Periodical was updated to 1.76 Peristyle was updated to v6.0.0 PocketPlan was updated to 1.4.3 Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 6.14.1 QRAlarm was updated to 2.0.3 RailTrip was updated to 1.5.4 Rank-My-Favs was updated to 0.6.1 RiMusic was updated to 0.6.60 Robot36 - SSTV Image Decoder was updated to 2.13 RomanDigital was updated to 1.3.0 Rush was updated to 2.3.7 Satunes was updated to 2.4.6 Share Paste O2 was updated to 2024.11.16 SimpMusic was updated to 0.2.4 Souvenirs was updated to 2.9.4 Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to 2.2.1 Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders was updated to 14.0 Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox was updated to 8.1 trale was updated to 0.8.1 Transito was updated to 0.8.4.7 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.16.0 Tuta Calendar was updated to 251.241113.0 Tuta Mail was updated to 251.241112.0 Unciv was updated to 4.14.7 Untracker was updated to 1.0.5 Vernet - Network Analyzer was updated to 1.1.0 Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.19.4 WikiReader was updated to 1.7.1 Wire • Secure Messenger was updated to 4.9.0-42652 Xtra was updated to 2.38.2 YAM Launcher was updated to 1.6 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 14 Nov 2024, Week 46 Community News Inter Profile Sharing, Easily share media and text between Android user profiles, was newly added, allowing you to share data between Android User profiles. User profiles come in several forms, most common one is the Work Profile and Android expanded over the years how these function and different manufacturers choose different ways to support them (eg. some have a ‘Clone apps’ feature). Profiles allow separation between apps and data, as the user sees fit, but if need arises to throw files and data over the fence to another profile, the newly added app will surely help. Headwind MDM Agent was updated to 6.11, making the proposition for a FOSS Mobile Device Management (MDM) System for Android. We usually see proprietary solutions for this type of software, and while we’d be against limiting users freedom in using their devices, this might make sense in some situations. Minetest was updated to 5.10.0 but now it bares a new name: Luanti. The whole name thing was the subject of discussions since Minetest started and you can read more about the decision in the team blog post. Latest version also brings some nice features, detailed in a separate post. OSM Dashboard for OpenTracks and OSM Dashboard Offline for OpenTracks were updated to 5.0.0, and upgraded to reproducible builds. What does this mean? F-Droid now hosts the developer signed packages, but this also entails the need for its past users to uninstall old versions and reinstall the new one. Removed Apps 12 apps were removed ForRunners, Track your personal fitness, hasn’t seen an update since 2018. We’ve covered the issue of the famously orange Simple Mobile Tools suite a year ago, and during this time, the green Fossify suite grew to completion. So the time has come to say our goodbyes to the following apps: Simple Calculator, Simple Calendar Pro, Simple Camera, Simple Clock, Simple Contacts Pro, Simple File Manager Pro, Simple Keyboard, Simple Launcher, Simple Music Player, Simple Notes Pro and Simple Voice Recorder. The apps are now archived, so if you want them you can still get them, but we encourage everyone to embrace the green suite and switch already. Newly Added Apps 8 more apps were newly added Drawpile: A collaborative drawing program Human Benchmark: Test and compare your cognitive abilities with fun challenges Muse - Text to Speech: Convert text to natural-speaking audio with custom voices and pauses Paranoid’s Pal - Privacy Lock: Unlock Privacy, Secure Your World ProseReader: ProseReader for Android Ebook/EPUB Viewer RecollDroid: UI for the Recoll full-text search engine Recurring Expense Tracker: Keep track of your monthly spending Zimly S3 Backup: Synchronize your media to any S3 compatible storage Updated Apps 148 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) 37C3 Schedule was updated to 1.67.0 AAAAXY was updated to 1.5.220+20241104.3539.1d12f7d2 Audile was updated to 1.7.1 Audio Recorder was updated to 3.5.23 Audio Share was updated to 0.2.1 Blitzortung Lightning Monitor was updated to 2.2.6 Blood pressure monitor was updated to 1.8.2 Box, Box! was updated to 0.8.2 Brume Wallet was updated to 0.6.529 Butterfly was updated to 2.2.2 Caffeinate was updated to 1.7.2 CAPod - Companion for AirPods was updated to 2.16.0-rc0 Capy Reader was updated to 2024.11.1070 Cardabase was updated to 1.1.2 Chance was updated to 1.2.3 ChatLaunch for WhatsApp was updated to v0.14.0 Cheogram was updated to 2.17.2-2+free Citrine was updated to 0.5.5 Ciyue was updated to 0.11.2 Clash Meta For Android was updated to 2.11.2.Meta Commons was updated to 5.1.0 Cuppa - Tea Timer was updated to 2.8.2 Cuscon was updated to 4.0.4.1 Dahdidahdit - the Morse Trainer was updated to 1.12.0 Dart Checker was updated to 0.7.10 DeepL was updated to 8.6 Delta Chat was updated to 1.48.3 drip. menstrual cycle and fertility tracking was updated to 1.2410.29 EasySSHFS was updated to 0.5.13 EasySync was updated to 1.14 eduVPN was updated to 3.3.4 EinkBro was updated to 14.0.0 Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to 0.7.3 Ente Auth was updated to 4.1.0 Ente Photos - Open source, end-to-end encrypted al was updated to 0.9.58 Etar - OpenSource Calendar was updated to 1.0.48 Exfilac was updated to 1.1.3 F-Droid Build Status was updated to 5.7.1 FairEmail was updated to 1.2245 floccus bookmark sync was updated to 5.3.3 FOSS4G 2024 Schedule was updated to 1.67.0-FOSS4G2024-Edition Frigoligo was updated to 2.0.0 FTPClient was updated to 2.11.0 Gallery was updated to 3.0.1 Geto was updated to 1.16.3 Graph 89 was updated to 1.1.8 Green: Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 4.0.37 Harmony Music was updated to 1.10.31 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.2.2 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.6.4 InviZible Pro: increase your security, protect you was updated to 6.9.0 Jami was updated to 20241105-01 Joplin was updated to 3.2.1 jtx Board journals|notes|tasks was updated to 2.09.02.ose Karbon was updated to 2.8.0 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 1.0.0-alpha.11 Kitsune was updated to 2.0.2-1 Kotatsu was updated to 7.6.7 Kwik EFIS was updated to 6.22 LabLog was updated to 1.4 Librera Reader was updated to 8.9.182-fdroid LinkDroid for Linkwarden was updated to 1.4.0 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.2.2 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.0.28 LocalSend was updated to 1.16.1 LogFox was updated to 2.0.4 Lyrion was updated to 0.8.3 MedTimer was updated to 1.11.0 Mill was updated to 5.4.2 MoasdaWiki App was updated to 3.9.1.1 Money Manager Ex was updated to 2024.11.10 MonsterMusic was updated to 0.1.40 Mullvad VPN: privacy is a universal right was updated to 2024.8 MusicSearch was updated to 1.8.0-beta.13 Mute reminder was updated to 2.13 Network Survey was updated to 1.31 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20241110 ntodotxt was updated to 0.11.0 Obtainium was updated to 1.1.30 OpenTopoMap Viewer was updated to 1.20 Orgro was updated to 1.47.0 Orgzly Revived was updated to 1.8.30 Pagan was updated to 1.5.12 PCAPdroid was updated to 1.7.5 Peristyle was updated to v5.2.0 Persian Calendar was updated to 9.4.0 Phase10Counter was updated to 3.1.0 Phonograph Plus was updated to 1.8.5.1 PiliPala was updated to 1.0.24 PinPoi was updated to 1.11.3 PipePipe was updated to 3.9.0 plees-tracker was updated to 24.8.1 Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 6.13.8 Prayer Book was updated to 0.5.0 Prepaid Balance was updated to 2.10 Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to 1.27.0 QRAlarm was updated to 2.0 QuickWeather was updated to 2.7.5 Rabbit Escape was updated to 0.13.4 RailTrip was updated to 1.5.3 RiMusic was updated to 0.6.59 Rush was updated to 2.3.5 Saber was updated to 0.25.2 Satunes was updated to 2.4.5 SDK Monitor was updated to 0.99 Seafile was updated to 3.0.5 Seers Lodge was updated to 1.1.2 Sensor Server was updated to 6.4.0 Share 2 Archive Today was updated to 2.9 SimpleMarkdown was updated to 2024.11.0-free SimpleTextEditor was updated to 1.26.3 SiYuan was updated to 3.1.11 Sky Map was updated to 1.10.4 - RC1 Sleep Timer was updated to 1.3.2 Solar was updated to 1.0.3 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 3.4 Standard Notes was updated to 3.195.13 Stroke Input Method (筆畫輸入法) was updated to 1.4.0 Suntimes was updated to 0.16.3 Symphony was updated to 2024.11.114 taz was updated to 1.9.5 Thumb-Key was updated to 4.0.3 TimeLimit.io was updated to 7.2.2 tower was updated to 2.11.1 Trail Sense was updated to 6.5.0 Transdroid was updated to 2.5.25 Transdrone was updated to 2.5.25 Transito was updated to 0.8.2.5 Tuta Calendar was updated to 251.241108.0 Tuta Mail was updated to 251.241108.0 Tux Paint was updated to 0.9.34 Unciv was updated to 4.14.5 Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.40.2 URLCheck was updated to 3.0 Vernet - Network Analyzer was updated to 1.0.9 VolumeLockr was updated to 1.6.1 Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.18.5 WG Tunnel was updated to 3.6.0 wger Workout Manager was updated to 1.7.7 WiFi Widget was updated to 1.6.0.1 Wikipedia was updated to r/2.7.50508-r-2024-11-06 WikiReader was updated to 1.6.2 wX was updated to 55920 Xray was updated to 8.1.0 Xtra was updated to 2.38.0 Youamp was updated to 1.0.3 zSMTH was updated to 24.11.07 µLauncher was updated to j-0.0.14 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 07 Nov 2024, Week 45 Community News Fennec F-Droid and Mull were updated to 132.0.0, after a two months hiatus where everyone was holding their breath, while we didn’t have time to catch our breath. Lost dependencies, home movements, angry forum posts, rebuilt dependencies, angry toots, added NDKs, stopped cycles (twice!), changed built dependencies, explainer toots, timeouts, closed forum threads, it was a non-stop roller coaster, yet compressed in a slit of time and only for two apps. In other news, Fennec has Translations activated by default. This enables users to read any (supported) language text without leaving the current page. While we didn’t expect any drama, Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox, A 100% open source, privacy focused email app, (yes the one of Desktop fame!), and its companion Thunderbird Beta for Testers were newly included. They are based on K-9 Mail, also updated to 8.0, but with some cosmetic and branding differences. A little bit of backstory, back in 2022 it was announced that K-9 Mail joins the Thunderbird family, so it was just a matter of time for it to become the new app. And the time has come, the app is ready, albeit most K-9 users got notified about this launch because of a Mozilla source code repo mistake, as the metadata (icon, pics, text) of K-9 were mixed up with Thunderbird and F-Droid said it will update Thunderbird Beta for Testers instead of K-9. Fediverse and our Forum users got up in arms at this bit of info, only visible in F-Droid, that felt like an app takeover, and unfortunately many jumped to conclusions and uninstalled K-9 instead of looking in their launchers to see that there’s no new app and K-9 is still fine. All is well now, and many took this opportunity to switch to Thunderbird following the import steps. What about K-9’s future? Well, Mozilla says they “plan to continue maintaining and releasing K-9 Mail for approximately one year after the release of Thunderbird for Android”. Ghost Commander was updated to 1.64.1b1 and we took the opportunity to note that on newer Android versions SFTP connections that use Kerberos authentication might not work as a dependency is missing. Removed Apps 3 apps were removed MTA Fare Buster: Calculate NYC MTA metrocard prices Offline Puzzle Solver: Solves various kinds of puzzle (Sudoku, N-Queens) pretixdroid: Validates tickets generated by pretix (Superseded by pretixSCAN which was also updated to 2.10.0) Newly Added Apps 8 more apps were newly added BabbyPaint: Simple little paint application for kids FOSS4G 2024 Schedule: Conference program app for the FOSS4G 2024 conference in Belém, Brazil Journal: Keep track of substance usage to gain insights on consumption patterns LabLog: A digital lab notebook with automatic timestamping Lissen: Audiobookshelf client: Clean Audiobookshelf Player Muzei Pixiv Source: Fetch illustration from Pixiv and provides them as a wallpaper source for muzei NotallyX | Minimalistic note taking app: A simple and minimalistic open source notes app WikiReader: Read Wikipedia pages distraction-free Updated Apps 106 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) addy.io was updated to v5.4.0 Aer - Fork of Anemo was updated to 2024.10.31 AnkiDroid: Flashcards was updated to 2.19.1 ANOTHERpass was updated to 2.0.2 APM was updated to 3.0.1 Audio Recorder was updated to 3.5.22 Aves Libre was updated to 1.11.17 Bangle.js Gadgetbridge was updated to 0.82.0-banglejs baresip was updated to 61.1.0 baresip+ was updated to 48.1.0 BILIBILIAS was updated to 2.0.46 Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 10.19 Bitcoin Wallet [testnet3] was updated to 10.19 Boxcars was updated to 1.4.5 Caffeinate was updated to 1.6.0 Candle was updated to 1.7.0 Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated to 14.3 Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet was updated to 2.32.1 Cavity was updated to 1.7.1 Chance was updated to 1.2.2 ChatLaunch for WhatsApp was updated to v0.13.2 Cirrus was updated to 3.4 Clock was updated to 2.9 ColorBlendr was updated to v1.9 Compose Stopwatch was updated to 1.8.2 Delta Icon Pack was updated to 1.9.7 Doodle: Live Wallpapers was updated to 6.0.0 Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to 0.7.2 FairEmail was updated to 1.2244 FetchIt was updated to 1.4 Find My Device (FMD) was updated to 0.9.0 Fossify Phone was updated to 1.3.0 Gadgetbridge was updated to 0.82.0 Geto was updated to 1.16.1 GLPI Agent was updated to 1.6.0 GPTMobile was updated to 0.5.3 Gramophone was updated to 1.0.15 Hammer [ALPHA] was updated to 1.9.2 idTech4A++ was updated to 1.1.0harmattan58natasha Imagepipe was updated to 0.70 Immich was updated to 1.119.0 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.2.1 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.6.3 Jellyfin for Android TV was updated to 0.17.9 Keep Screen On was updated to 1.20.3 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 1.0.0-alpha.10.2 Ladefuchs was updated to 3.1.4 LibreOffice & OpenOffice document reader | ODF was updated to 3.32 LibreOffice Viewer was updated to 24.2.7.2 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.2.2-rc.0 Léon – The URL Cleaner was updated to 46 Mastodon was updated to 2.8.0 Materialious was updated to 1.6.22 MedTimer was updated to 1.10.5 Menu Generator was updated to 2.1.0 Money Manager Ex was updated to 2024.11.01 moreDays was updated to 1.0.24 MusicSearch was updated to 1.8.0-beta.8 My Expenses was updated to 3.9.0.1 NanoLedger was updated to 0.6.3 NewsBlur was updated to 13.3.1 Nextcloud was updated to 3.30.4 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20241101 Obtainium was updated to 1.1.29 Offi was updated to 13.0.6 Open Food Facts was updated to 4.16.0 openHAB Beta was updated to 3.16.4-beta Orgro was updated to 1.45.3 ownCloud was updated to 4.4.1 Pachli for Mastodon was updated to 2.8.3 Pagan was updated to 1.5.11 Peristyle was updated to v5.0.0 PinPoi was updated to 1.11.1 Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 6.13.2 Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to 1.26.2 PySolFC was updated to 3.1.0 Quote Unquote was updated to 4.46.1-fdroid Really Basic Vocab was updated to 3.4.4 RomanDigital was updated to 1.2.0 RustDesk was updated to 1.3.2 SatDump was updated to 1.2.1 Satunes was updated to 2.4.2 Seafile was updated to 3.0.5 Share Paste O2 was updated to 2024.10.29 Sharing was updated to v1.5.4-alpha2 ShowCase was updated to 1.1 Simple Crypto Widget was updated to 8.6.0 SimpleTextEditor was updated to 1.26.2 Sleep Timer was updated to 1.3.1 Sound Quick Settings was updated to 1.0.6 Street­Complete was updated to 60.0-alpha1 Thumb-Key was updated to 4.0.2 Tilde Friends was updated to 0.0.24 TonUINO NFC Tools was updated to 1.0.3 Traditional T9 was updated to 40.0 Transistor - Simple Radio App was updated to 4.2.2 Trime was updated to 3.3.1 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.15.7 Tuta Calendar was updated to 250.241025.0 Tuta Mail was updated to 250.241025.0 Unciv was updated to 4.14.3 Wikipedia was updated to r/2.7.50507-r-2024-10-21 Xeonjia: Ice Adventures was updated to 3.0.4 Xray was updated to 8.0.0 Your local weather was updated to 6.0.4 Yubico Authenticator was updated to 7.1.1 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 31 Oct 2024, Week 44 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.20.1 as suggested and to 1.21.1 still in testing. Some updates on last weeks fires: Nextcloud was updated to 3.30.3 and Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20241026, as some users still reported issues, was this fire extinguished for you? Codeberg polished their filters and F-Droid server could finally build apps hosted there again. Fennec F-Droid and Mull made waves in the Fediverse and beyond as they were marked as vulnerable. We answered most of the questions, it was just a bad timing between new releases fixing critical bugs, tooling issues preventing F-Droid to build these apps and our main contributors being caught up in Real Life. Mozilla source code is just the starting point, and F-Droid must clean it up and build it from open-source code with trusted build tools, and this takes time before it even reaches the build server. We will reword the banner message in the Client to make it sound less scary and use the existing Anti-Features app details field to give as much info as possible. Regarding the new update 132, while everything was in place for a build, and an issue caught early at the start of this cycle was promptly fixed, we are still seeing it fail later on and we are investigating. So this update will be delayed for another cycle. While all these fires were raging on, we also overhauled our workflow for checkupdates (the bot that pulls in all the autoupdated apps versions) touching upon fdroidserver, fdroiddata and many Gitlab configurations. These changes might not be visible from a user perspective, but they should yield some improvements in helping contributors manage the metadata repository, and catching app issues early on, before they reach the build server. Community News Micro REPL, MicroPython IDE, is back with a new developer key, do the uninstall and reinstall dance so you can get future updates too! The Fossify Suite just got two new entries this week: Fossify Calculator, Simple and open-source calculator for quick and easy calculations Fossify Camera, Lightweight open-source camera app for quick, easy, and secure photography And some updates: Fossify Contacts was updated to 1.1.0 Fossify Keyboard was updated to 1.1.1 Are these all? Not quite, we are still waiting for Draw and Flashlight. Syncthing-Fork was updated to 1.28.0.0, and if you’ve read last week’s Community News section maybe you want to take a look and plan a transfer. Removed Apps 2 apps were removed AndroidIDE: AndroidIDE is an IDE for Android to develop full featured Android apps (We featured it in a TWIF, really sad that it has no future) FreshRSS: Client for freshrss.org Newly Added Apps 4 more apps were newly added BiliDownOut: Export videos downloaded from the Android version of Bilibili App Chaka Book Reader: An excellent Android book reader based on MuPDF Android Viewer Dahdidahdit: An actual Morse code trainer, not just a Morse code generator RomanDigital: Digital Clock App and Widget with Roman Numeral Display Updated Apps 200 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) 8-Bit Wonders was updated to 0.8.4a Amber was updated to 2.0.8 AnkiDroid: Flashcards was updated to 2.19.0 AnLinux was updated to 6.60 Stable APM was updated to 3.0.0 ArcaneChat was updated to 1.48.2 Arx Libertatis was updated to 1.3.3.1 Audile was updated to 1.7.0 Audio Share was updated to 0.2.0 AusweisApp was updated to 2.2.2 Auxio was updated to 3.6.3 Average data usage widget was updated to 4.1 Backup (PFA) was updated to 1.3.2 BitBanana was updated to 0.8.7 Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 10.18 Bitcoin Wallet [testnet3] was updated to 10.18 Blink Comparison was updated to 1.2.1 Blokish was updated to 3.6 Brume Wallet was updated to 0.6.527 BTC Map was updated to 0.8.0 Bunny Media Editor was updated to 4.1 Butterfly was updated to 2.2.1 c-beam was updated to 1.7.1 CalcYou was updated to 2.0 Calyx VPN was updated to 1.4.1 Capy Reader was updated to 2024.10.1069-dev Cartes IGN was updated to 3.1.23 Cavity was updated to 1.7.0 Chaldea was updated to 2.5.17 ChatLaunch for WhatsApp was updated to v0.13.0 Cheogram was updated to 2.17.2-1+free Chip Defense was updated to 1.45 Citrine was updated to 0.5.4 Ciyue was updated to 0.10.1 Classical Music Tagger was updated to 1.9.6 Clock You was updated to 8.1 Compose Stopwatch was updated to 1.8.1 Conversations was updated to 2.17.2+free Diaguard: Diabetes Diary was updated to 3.13.0 DroidCrypt was updated to 1.1 DroidShows was updated to 7.11.10 droidVNC-NG was updated to 2.7.3 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.217.0 Easy Diary was updated to 1.4.317.202410240 EinkBro was updated to 12.4.0 Electrum Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 4.5.8 Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to 0.7.1 Endless Sky was updated to 0.10.10-46 Ente Photos - Open source, end-to-end encrypted al was updated to 0.9.53 ETH & UZH canteens Zürich was updated to 1.8.4 Exfilac was updated to 1.1.2 F-Droid Build Status was updated to 5.7.0 FairEmail was updated to 1.2241 FeedFlow - RSS Reader was updated to 0.0.59 FetchIt was updated to 1.3 Feudal Tactics was updated to 1.3.0 Find My Device (FMD) was updated to 0.8.0 FlashDim - Dim your flashlight was updated to 2.3.5 Flexify was updated to 1.1.89 FlorisBoard was updated to 0.4.3 Forkgram was updated to 11.2.3.0 Forkyz was updated to 58 Gauguin was updated to 0.31.3 GeoNotes was updated to 1.7.0 Geto was updated to 1.16.0 Ghost Commander was updated to 1.64b4 GPTMobile was updated to 0.5.2 Green: Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 4.0.36 Hacki for Hacker News was updated to 2.9.5 IITC-CE Mobile was updated to 0.39.1 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.2.0 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.6.2 Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated to Build100.7.0 IPCam Demo was updated to 2.4.1 Jami was updated to 20241023-01 Jellyfin for Android TV was updated to 0.17.8 JMP SIM Manager was updated to jmp-v1.1.2 Joplin was updated to 3.1.6 Journalize was updated to 1.2.0 K-9 Mail was updated to 8.0b4 KDE Connect was updated to 1.32.9 KeePassVault was updated to 1.9.0 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 1.0.0-alpha.10.1 Klick’r - Smart AutoClicker was updated to 3.0.6 Kwik EFIS was updated to 6.20 LabNex for GitLab was updated to 1.0.2 Libre Memory Game was updated to 1.0.6 LibrePass was updated to 1.3.1 Librera Reader was updated to 8.9.181-fdroid LinkDroid for Linkwarden was updated to 1.2.1 Linkora was updated to 0.10.0 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.2.1 LxReader was updated to 0.7.8 (fdroid) Léon – The URL Cleaner was updated to 45 Magisk was updated to 28.0 Markor was updated to 2.13.0 Material Notes was updated to 1.7.2 Materialious was updated to 1.6.16 MediLog was updated to 3.0.7 MedTimer was updated to 1.10.3 mensen was updated to 1.3.0 Menu Generator was updated to 2.0.0 Meshtastic was updated to 2.5.2 Mill was updated to 5.4.1 Money Manager Ex was updated to 2024.10.19 Monly was updated to 2.11 monocles chat was updated to 2.0.1+free MonsterMusic was updated to 0.1.39 MTG Familiar was updated to 3.9.11 Mullvad VPN: privacy is a universal right was updated to 2024.8-beta2 MultiVNC was updated to 2.1.8 MusicSearch was updated to 1.8.0-beta.4 Musify was updated to 8.7.1 My Brain was updated to 2.0.3 My Expenses was updated to 3.9.0 NeatLauncher was updated to 1.4 neutriNote CE was updated to 4.5.3h Nextcloud Cookbook was updated to 0.22.0 Notes (PFA) was updated to 2.0.2 Notesnook - Private notes app was updated to 3.0.19 Obtainium was updated to 1.1.28 Offi was updated to 13.0.5 OONI Probe was updated to 4.0.0 Open Sudoku was updated to 4.1.0 openHAB Beta was updated to 3.16.3-beta OpenPaperView was updated to 1.2.0 Opus 1 Music Player was updated to 2.63.2 Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline was updated to 2024.10.23-2-FDroid Orgro was updated to 1.44.2 osm2gmaps was updated to 0.5.7 Package Manager was updated to v7.2 Pagan was updated to 1.5.10 PeakOrama was updated to 3.2 Peristyle was updated to v4.0.0 Persian Calendar was updated to 9.3.0 Pie Launcher was updated to 1.21.1 PinPoi was updated to 1.10.7 PixelDroid was updated to 1.0.beta38 Plant-it was updated to 0.9.0 Pocket Broomball was updated to 6.0.0 PocketTRacker was updated to 2.2.1 Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 6.12.7 Poet Assistant was updated to 1.30.10 pretixPRINT was updated to 2.19.3-foss Primitive FTPd was updated to 7.3 QRAlarm was updated to 1.7.2 Quicksy was updated to 2.17.2+free QuickWeather was updated to 2.7.4 Quote Unquote was updated to 4.46.0-fdroid Rabbit Escape was updated to 0.13.3 RailTrip was updated to 1.5.2 Rank-My-Favs was updated to 0.5.4 Recording Studio Lite was updated to 0.2.0 RiMusic was updated to 0.6.57.1 Ripple: respond when panicking was updated to 0.3.1 Saber was updated to 0.25.1 SAF Media Scanner was updated to 1.8.4 Safe Space was updated to 2.0.7 Sapio was updated to 1.5.5 Satunes was updated to 2.4.0 SauceNAO was updated to 1.24 Save Locally: Share2Storage was updated to 1.4.0 ScreenStream was updated to 4.1.13 Seers Lodge was updated to 1.1.1 Sensa Gram was updated to 1.4.1 Sensor Server was updated to 6.3.2 Share Paste O2 was updated to 2024.10.21 Sharing was updated to v1.5.3 ShoppingList was updated to v1.17.0 Simple Keyboard was updated to 5.21 SimpleX Chat was updated to 6.1.1 SiYuan was updated to 3.1.10 Slideshow Wallpaper was updated to 1.2.2 Snapdrop & PairDrop for Android was updated to 2.3.0 Souvenirs was updated to 2.9.2 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 3.3 SpMp was updated to 0.4.2 Squeeze Client was updated to 1.2 Street­Complete was updated to 59.3 Table Habit was updated to 1.14.1 TermuC was updated to 0.1.4 Text Tools was updated to 1.5.0 Text Tools was updated to 1.5.0 The One App was updated to 2.1.0 Thumb-Key was updated to 4.0.1 Timed Shutdown [No Root] was updated to v2.80 Timed Silence - Don’t let your phone rattle you! was updated to 3.1.3 Torrents-csv-android was updated to 4.0.1 TorrServe was updated to MatriX.134.1.F-Droid Traintime PDA was updated to 1.4.0 Translate You was updated to 11.0 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.15.5 Unciv was updated to 4.14.0 Unpopular Music Player was updated to 2.83 Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.18.4 Wall You was updated to 9.1 WG Tunnel was updated to 3.5.4 whoBIRD was updated to 3.6 Yggdrasil was updated to 0.1-019 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Wednesday, 23 Oct 2024, Week 43 F-Droid core Just after the last TWIF was published we thought it will be just another nice and chill weekend, little did we know that things will just light up. Like Client issues after Android upgrades, users devices synchronizing the same data on and on until devices got hot, like users mobile data phone bills going over the monthly data quotas, like VPN connections never starting and users losing access to their data, like contacts never to be added to remote phone-book addresses or like build servers being blocked by code forges too eager to apply scorched-earth firewall rules. So let’s take them step by step. Apps on fire? F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.21.0, but you knew this since the last TWIF. Yet, if you didn’t manually update yet, maybe refrain until the next 1.21.1 version is out. We are building it as we speak so it should be out soon. Why a dot release already? We noticed that in certain repo/preferred setups, and tied to Android version upgrades, some internal database was not reset correctly and might lead to a crashing state leaving Client unusable. DAVx⁵ was updated to 4.4.3.2-ose to fix some crashing bugs, but luckily this version was spotted by our contributors just in time for a cycle, so many users might not have had a chance to update to the broken one. Nextcloud was downgraded to 3.30.0 because on upgrade some “internal sync timestamp would be null”. Not a Mars Climate Orbiter level of failure, but it still got a lot of users up in arms, and up in phone bills, as the app would sync the same data continuously in a loop, for gigabytes until caught. The upstream issue is really long, but be sure that we got all the email notifications and the fixed update is building as we speak. Tailscale was downgraded to 1.72.0 as the newer versions were crashing. It’s a combination of F-Droid recipe complexity (as we need to build a lot of stuff ourselves from source) and upstream code base complexity. While @linsui spotted this early, the first broken update was already on the way to the users devices. We are working with upstream for a speedy recipe update, more info in the upstream issue. Servers on fire? Not quite… While we bemoan the majority of developers using the proprietary Github servers to host their source code repositories, we also encourage them to seek friendlier more open services, like those that you can self-host based on SourceHut, Gitea, Forgejo or Gitlab, or, if not possible, at least some hosted by others, like we use gitlab.com (not without grievances) ourselves. One such instance that rose to fame is also the main force behind the Forgejo software, Codeberg.org, based in Germany. Last week they had a handful of work to do, between a DDOS “attack”, repositories storage abuse, server hardware upgrades, a new Forgejo version update to deploy and countless server downtime instances, both of the scheduled and of the surprise type. What has this to do with F-Droid? Well, contributors saw that Codeberg servers were unreachable from time to time, and we started to look up why. They posted that “We are struggling with excessive crawling today. .. It’s the #AIgoldrush. The web was completely crawled, just not by everyone yet.” and explained that to counter such abusive behavior they started blocking more and more Internet hosts. And that is fine, ‘business as usual’ when hosting on the Internet. Yet we started to see some apps fail to build, only to find that those were apps hosted on Codeberg and the server logs were clear error: RPC failed; HTTP 429 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 429 which translates to “HTTP response code 429: Too Many Requests”. Basically Codeberg treats F-Droid as an abuser, even though we didn’t download anything from their servers for a couple of days. We are collateral damage in their fight against abuse! But you could just give them your IP so they’ll make an exception, right? Yes and no. We’ve let them know that they block us, at the same time for privacy and security reasons we’d like to keep our information private. And there’s also a question of measured response from their part, adding more and more IPs to your firewall will keep the bad actors out but you might not have a way to see how many innocent users were blocked too. F-Droid has about 104 apps that live in Codeberg, we started to mirror a couple of those repos as a first test, but it’s a lot of manual work to setup and keep in sync, on top of our regular maintenance, also it might not fix other issues down the build pipeline, like binaries for reproducible builds. We hope Codeberg finds a way to fix this, and still keep abuse at bay! Community News Android at liberty, a brief summary is a Spanish written blog post about F-Droid and some of its “must have” apps. Time flies in Android land, and while we sometimes notice it (hey F-Droid is 14 years old already!), we rarely ponder its scale. For example BusTO, Turin (Italy) public transport, will celebrate its 10 years anniversary next week. You can read the developer announcement from back then and try to remember what was I doing back in October 2014? We had Spanish, then an Italian app, let’s have Polish too. Last year Tymoteusz Jóźwiak blogged about “Open source apps for Android? F-Droid!” telling us about how to install F-Droid and eight of their favorite apps. Now they are back with a Part 2 and another batch of interesting apps, and more thoughts on the technology around us. Audio Recorder was updated to 0.9.99 after a 3 year pause, with some nice polish (gotcha!) and new features. Conversations Classic, Encrypted, easy-to-use XMPP instant messenger for your mobile device, is a fork of Conversations that tries to keep the old, pre-Material You theming and add some other requested features on top. While we salute its devs enthusiasm, and acknowledge the FLOSS spirit of forking, we also have to listen to the Conversations developer and our own rules which state that “a fork must change appid, name, graphics and texts” to make it clear that it is a separate thing from the original app. Initially the developers looked eager to fix this misunderstanding yet two months later nothing was changed. So we took the liberty to remove the app, for now, and once these complains are fixed we can re-include it back. DSub2000, Android client for Subsonic servers, is a new fork of the old DSub that’s no longer developed. gpsdRelay was updated to 1.2 bringing a new signing key. Yes the developer is apologizing for the mix up. If you had the app installed please uninstall your old version and reinstall the new one. And while we’re there, Railway station photos was updated to 16.0.0 and the app was upgraded to “reproducible builds“, hence a new key too. We have the same advice as above to reinstall, but from a different perspective, and we feel a better one. HyperRogue was updated to 13.0a after a long pause, as the last version had a bug that made it really hard to start the game. Take a look at the release post to get to know the new features. Micro REPL, MicroPython IDE, is out for a cycle, as the developer lost the signing key. It’s rebuilt while we write these lines so it should be fine. Once back we will ping you to reinstall it as needed. OpenTTD was updated to 14.1.rev128, but it’s actually a republished version as we fixed the package size, the old one was pretty bloated. Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to 1.26.1, after a single cycle where it was missing, as we reworked part of the recipe to cope with the newer dependency scanner rules. Ripple: respond when panicking was updated to 0.3.0 after 5 years, but it’s just an update to support newer Android versions and better translations. SimpleX Chat was updated to 6.1 bringing a lot of new features and fixes based on a fresh security audit. The team has a 15 minutes long blog post that explains why you are encouraged to update. Syncthing was updated to 1.28.0 but this might be one of the last updates for the app. The developers are tired of fighting that one centralized store, their never-ending rules and opaque conditions. You can read more here and here. You could backup your settings and restore in the currently developed Syncthing-Fork, and don’t forget to support its developer too while you’re at it! The Kana Quiz was updated to 0.15.1-pure at last, after 3 years, as our own @linsui fixed a build issue. Tuta Calendar, Quantum-safe encrypted planner to schedule & manage your events & sync calendars, joins Tuta Mail in F-Droid. While the mail app already has the Calendar integrated, the team wrote a blog post explaining why they chose to have it as a separate app too. VLC was updated to 3.6.0 Beta 2, not yet suggested but easily installable by brave users. Newly Added Apps 8 more apps were newly added Bibleside: Offline Bible app featuring the OET (Open English Translation) Electrum Bitcoin Wallet: Fast and self-custodial wallet for Bitcoin and the Lightning Network Fitness Calendar: A private and fully offline activity tracker Fossify Launcher: Customize your home screen with a fast, ad-free, open-source launcher Mancala: Mancala Game PeakOrama: PeakOrama shows mountains around a location Sensa Gram: Stream Android sensor data over UDP with minimal latency unjumble: an anagram game with picture hints Updated Apps 148 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) 37C3 Wifi Setup was updated to 0.37 3D Model Viewer was updated to 4.0.0 Acode editor - Android code editor was updated to 1.10.5 Aer - Fork of Anemo was updated to 2024.10.10 Alovoa was updated to 1.13.0 Amber was updated to 2.0.6 ANOTHERpass was updated to 2.0.0 Anytime Podcast Player was updated to 1.3.10 Aria for Misskey was updated to 0.15.1 Auxio was updated to 3.6.2 Aves Libre was updated to 1.11.16 AVNC was updated to 2.6.3 Ball2Box was updated to 4.1.5 Barcode Scanner was updated to 1.24.2 baresip was updated to 61.0.1 baresip+ was updated to 48.0.1 BILIBILIAS was updated to 2.0.45 Bimba was updated to 3.7.0 BinEd - Binary/Hex Editor was updated to 0.2.2 BleOta was updated to 1.2.1 Blink Comparison was updated to 1.2.0 Boxcars was updated to 1.4.4 Capy Reader was updated to 2024.10.1063 Chalachithram was updated to 1.4 ChatLaunch for WhatsApp was updated to v0.12.0 Cirrus was updated to 3.3 Citrine was updated to 0.5.3 Coordinate Joker was updated to 1.4.35 Cuscon was updated to 4.0.3.9 DankChat was updated to 3.9.14 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.216.2 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup was updated to 0.32.1-1-g848d7226f3 Easter Eggs was updated to 3.1.0 Easy Diary was updated to 1.4.316.202410151 EasySync was updated to 1.12 EinkBro was updated to 12.2.0 Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to 0.7.0 Ente Photos - Open source, end-to-end encrypted al was updated to 0.9.49 Exfilac was updated to 1.1.1 FairEmail was updated to 1.2238 FetchIt was updated to 1.2 File Navigator was updated to 0.2.2 Flask was updated to 1.1.1 FlorisBoard was updated to 0.4.1 Gauguin was updated to 0.31.2 Gcam Services Provider (Basic) was updated to 1.5.2 Geto was updated to 1.15.9 Graded - Grade tracker was updated to 2.7.1 Harmony Music was updated to 1.10.2 Home Assistant was updated to 2024.10.3-minimal Immich was updated to 1.118.1 Indic Keyboard was updated to 3.6.1 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.1.0 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.6.1 Interval Timer was updated to 1.1.1 Jami was updated to 20241011-01 Joplin was updated to 3.1.5 Json List was updated to 1.5 K-9 Mail was updated to 8.0b3 Keysh was updated to 0.1.6 Klick’r - Smart AutoClicker was updated to 3.0.5 Kotatsu was updated to 7.6.4 Kwik EFIS was updated to 6.18 Li-Ri was updated to 3.1.5 LibreOffice & OpenOffice document reader | ODF was updated to 3.31 Linkora was updated to 0.9.0 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.2.1-rc.1 Mastodon was updated to 2.7.3 Material Notes was updated to 1.7.1 Materialious was updated to 1.6.14 Mattermost Beta was updated to 2.21.0 Meditation Assistant was updated to 1.6.9 MedTimer was updated to 1.10.2 Meshenger was updated to 4.3.9 Meshtastic was updated to 2.5.1 Mill was updated to 5.3.0 Monly was updated to 2.10 MonsterMusic was updated to 0.1.36 MultiVNC was updated to 2.1.7 Musify was updated to 8.6.5 Myne: Download & Read eBooks was updated to 4.3.0 NanoLedger was updated to 0.6.2 Nex Notes was updated to 1.7 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20241016 NFC Quick Settings was updated to 1.4.4 Obtainium was updated to 1.1.27 Offi was updated to 13.0.4 OGN AR Viewer was updated to 1.0.4 Open Food Facts was updated to 4.16.0 Open Sudoku was updated to 4.0.11 Openlib was updated to 1.0.9 OpenSyncedLists was updated to 1.0.10 Orgzly Revived was updated to 1.8.28 Pagan was updated to 1.5.9 Pazzword - Password Evaluator was updated to 1.2.4 PCAPdroid was updated to 1.7.4 Peristyle was updated to v3.3.0 Petals was updated to 3.30.0 Pie Launcher was updated to 1.21.0 Pocket Broomball was updated to 5.2.1 Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 6.11.4 ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to 5.6.38.0 QuickWeather was updated to 2.7.3 Quote Unquote was updated to 4.45.0-fdroid Radio Romania was updated to 2.5.7 RidgeScout was updated to 0.6 RiMusic was updated to 0.6.56.1 RSSAid was updated to 3.0.3 Rush was updated to 2.3.4 Satunes was updated to 2.3.3 Seafile was updated to 3.0.4 Seal was updated to 1.13.1-(F-Droid) ServerBox was updated to 1.0.1104 Session was updated to 1.20.2 Share 2 Archive Today was updated to 2.8 Sharing was updated to v1.5.2-beta2 Simple Counter was updated to 1.3 Simple Sudoku Game was updated to 0.2.1 sing-box was updated to 1.10.1 SiYuan was updated to 3.1.9 Slideshow Wallpaper was updated to 1.2.1 SlimSocial for Facebook was updated to 10.1.1 SnapSaver was updated to 0.4.0 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 3.0 Squeeze Client was updated to 1.1 Standard Notes was updated to 3.195.12 Tape Measure (Privacy Friendly) was updated to 1.1.1 Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders was updated to 13.11.2 taz was updated to 1.9.3 Text Tools Multiple was updated to 1.4.0 Text Tools was updated to 1.4.0 The One App was updated to 2.0.1 Thumb-Key was updated to 3.4.16 TourCount was updated to 3.5.1 Trail Sense was updated to 6.4.0 TRIfA was updated to 1.0.238 Unciv was updated to 4.13.17 Valentin’s PowerTools #012 - Rate Your Pics was updated to 1.0.4 Vernet - Network Analyzer was updated to 1.0.8 Vespucci was updated to 20.1.4.0 VRChat Android Assistant was updated to 2.1.0 Wikipedia was updated to r/2.7.50506-r-2024-10-08 Windscribe was updated to 3.80 Word of the day - Learn a new word every day was updated to 2.0 Xtra was updated to 2.37.1 Yatoo was updated to 0.10.0 Yggdrasil was updated to 0.1-018 Autumn Cleaning You can read week 38th TWIF explanatory section for more details about why archiving happens and how you can access them or appeal the archiving process. Do note that some security related apps were archived this time, and these are specially more sensible and need to always stay on top of Android releases, known vulnerabilities and general software developments. Archived Apps 93 more apps were archived (expand for the full list) A Photo Manager: Manage local photos: Find/Copy/Edit-Exif and show in Gallery or Map. AirPush Detector: Discover where the ads are coming from Always On AMOLED Plugin: Control capacitive button lights via Always On AMOLED AnaCam: Anaglyph Camera andLess: Audio player AndroidPN Client: Push Notification Client Angulo: Angle and Distance Measuring AnySoftKeyboard: Persian: Language pack for AnySoftKeyboard AppLocker: Lockdown your apps AsciiCam: Replace pixels with text BackgroundRestrictor: Manage RUN_IN_BACKGROUND permissions Battery level: Filter SMS and show them in a fake app BlackJack Trainer: Learning BlackJack BLW - Bitcoin Lightning Wallet: Bitcoin wallet with Lightning Network support Browser Intercept - Share URL: Peek at urls Clock+: View time, set alarms and timers ColorSniffer: Color scheme generation based on app icon CommonsLab: Browse and contribute Wikimedia Commons CosyDVR: Video recording (DVR) software for in-car use crond: Schedules scripts DarkCroc Theme: A dark Substratum theme targeting Android 9+ Default Dark Theme: A dark Substratum theme targeting Android 7 & 8 DejaVu Fonts: DejaVu Fonts Theme DriSMo: Driving feedback dynalogin: Two-factor HOTP authentication eBooks: Search for books you like and download them in multiple formats. Ellaism Wallet: Ellaism Mobile Wallet EnigmAndroid: Simulation of the Enigma Machine FBReader Calibre connector: View local book catalogues FBReader TTS plugin: Addon for FBReader Flashify: Open websites in another browser FonBot: Control your device remotely freeminer: Minecraft-inspired sandbox game Freifunk Auto Connect: Add multiple Freifunk SSIDs to your device Gizmooi: Widget that displays pictures HABPanelViewer: An openHAB integrated kiosk browser Hall Monitor: Galaxy S4 cover HDA URL: Generate short URLs HoloKen: KenKen game Hotspot Login: Automate Wi-Fi logins InTheClear: Alerting and secure wipe Kandroid: Manage your projects Locker: Enforce maximum failed unlock attempts MathDoku: Sudoku-like game based on KenKen MMSKeeper: Switch data off and still allow MMS traffic Mobilne Bezpieczeństwo: List apps by categories of permissions Network Discovery: Network discovery tool NFC Reader: Simple app for reading various NFC tags and cards NiceFeed: Lightweight RSS feed reader and news aggregator now8: public transport: Improved public transport arrival time estimations using Machine Learning. NSTools: Manage kernel tweaks for Nexus S OmniROM Changelog: View recent changes of OmniROM/LineageOS ONScripter: Visual Novel player Open Training: Plan your fitness training OsmAnd Contour lines: Show contour lines in OSMAnd Page Plus Balance: Retrieve your balance from PagePlusCellular Paranoid Sms Blocker: Block unknown SMS Password Store: Manage your passwords PlanetCon: Play a turn based strategy game PocketSphinx Demo: Speech recognition Puff: Password Utility QuickMSG: Send encrypted instant messages via email Remembeer: Rate the beers you drink ScriptManager: Manage sh scripts SecDroid: Secure your device from attacks Shellshock Vulnerability Scan: Scan for Shellshock vulnerability Simple Explorer: File manager SimpleDo: Track and manage todo items Simply Pace: Calculate your pace SnooperStopper: Set different boot and unlock passwords SpiritF: Use headphones as antenna for FM radio SyncOrg: Take and organize notes TalkBack: Accessibility improvements TasClock: Track your work time Taskkeeper: Keep track of to-dos Tessercube: OpenPGP Made Mobile (Try OpenKeychain: Easy PGP with OkcAgent) Timesheet: Time Tracker Todo Agenda for Android 4 - 7.0: Home screen agenda TPT Helper: Tools for ZTE phones TripSit: Information, combination charts and a live help chat for recreational drugs Tron Wallet: Multifunctional wallet for the TRON network TVHGuide: TVHeadEnd PVR client UnifiedNlp (no GAPPS) (legacy): Location provider middleware (UnifiedNlp) Verbiste Android: Conjugate French verbs Veterondo: Generate colors from weather information ViMusic: Seamlessly stream music from YouTube Music Voodoo OTA RootKeeper: Maintain root access WallETH: Ethereum wallet WATransmitter: Share any file in WhatsApp Web Media Share: Browser for viewing, sharing, or casting media from websites WoT Tank Quiz: Quiz about the PC game World of Tanks yaft: Simple terminal emulator ΞtheRemotΞ: Ethereum Remote Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF, and for your support during these fire-y days 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 17 Oct 2024, Week 42 F-Droid core I hope this note finds you in good health. By the time this post reaches you, final F-Droid Client and Basic 1.21.0 went live, but not yet suggested. Did you test the alpha releases? No? Let’s hope someone did on your special device and Android version combo, I mean I run bleeding edge here and it works fine. 🤷 The full changelog since the last alpha1 is: Fix race conditions when repositories are updated at the same time Don’t crash when Bluetooth permissions are missing Fix launching panic settings from Panic app (e.g. Ripple) Fix permission issue that prevented full and basic installed at same time Update UI if the repository disable warning is canceled Nothing exciting, as expected, we’re polishing the experience in this 6 months long development cycle. Based on your feedback, and more of our internal testing, this will be promoted to suggested soon. Missed the gist about why 1.21.0 is great? Go read the week 40 intro and take a peek at the full changelog between releases. Unfortunately there’s no targetSdkVersion bump with this new version, but the good news is that it looks like only the Bluetooth permission needs some fixes, so we are pretty close. Since you want some drama and excitement, you can read about what the future will bring, as AndroidAuthority peeks into the F-Droid development and writes about “F-Droid being the first third-party app store to support Android 15’s app archiving feature”. Community News Did you know that the Internet was invented for cat pics? Yes, they even have their own domain name .cat and that’s a true story I swear! 😸 On a serious note, the Catalan community launched a call to action for a “Collaborative translation into Catalan of F-Droid”. This was back in July, and we missed it, but we see there’s a bit more work to do to reach that 100%, so another pair of eyes might be helpful anyway. Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to 0.6.5 after 4 months of missing out, as the Element team worked to replace the components that made the app builds non-deterministic. Reproducible builds are harder to setup and maintain, but both teams understand their importance. NextGIS Mobile, GIS that lets you create, edit and export geodata, both online and offline, was updated to 2.8.0 after an 8 year long pause. Thanks to @linsui for digging into old apps recipes and fixing them. This app had the Google Analytics code cleaned up. Newly Added Apps 5 apps were newly added BinEd - Binary/Hex Editor: Editor for binary data (hex viewer/editor) Compose Stopwatch: Stopwatch in the Material You theme, designed for ease of use and best features DroidCrypt: A file and text encryption tool for Android FetchIt: An app that lets you download media files from YouTube, Twitter, etc Seers Lodge: A feature-rich P2P chat application that runs on the Tox protocol Updated Apps 60 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) AAAAXY was updated to 1.5.208+20241005.3527.cc22b5e2 Arx Libertatis was updated to 1.3.2 Aves Libre was updated to 1.11.15 Blood pressure monitor was updated to 1.8.1 Boxcars was updated to 1.4.3 Cartes IGN was updated to 3.1.17 ccgt was updated to 1.5 Citrine was updated to 0.5.2 E6B Flight Computer was updated to 1.2 Emotic was updated to 0.1.2 Ente Photos was updated to 0.9.47 EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer was updated to 1.9.rc3 FairEmail was updated to 1.2236 Feeder was updated to 2.6.33 FFUpdater was updated to 79.2.5 Flip a coin was updated to DVNE floccus bookmark sync was updated to 5.3.1 Gallery for PhotoPrism was updated to 1.31.1 Gramophone was updated to 1.0.14 Grit was updated to 1.3.3 Hammer [ALPHA] was updated to 1.8.1 Harmony Music was updated to 1.10.1 Healthy Battery Charging was updated to 2.0.8 idTech4A++ was updated to 1.1.0harmattan57natasha KDE Connect was updated to 1.32.7 Kotatsu was updated to 7.6.3 LibreOffice 2024 Schedule was updated to 1.66.2-LibreOffice-Edition Materialious was updated to 1.6.7 Mattermost Beta was updated to 2.20.1 MediLog was updated to 3.0.6 Meditation Assistant was updated to 1.6.8 Meshtastic was updated to 2.5.0 MorbidMeter was updated to 2.15.0 MOROway App was updated to 10.1.1 mOTP was updated to 4 Mule on Android was updated to 38 MusicSearch was updated to 1.7.0-beta.4 My Brain was updated to 2.0.2 NeatLauncher was updated to 1.3 Nextcloud was updated to 3.30.1 RC1 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20241010 Open Ear was updated to 1.9 Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline was updated to 2024.10.08-5-FDroid Peristyle was updated to v3.2.0 Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 6.9.3 RiMusic was updated to 0.6.55 SCEE was updated to 59.2 SchildiChat was updated to 1.6.22.sc81 Shattered Pixel Dungeon was updated to 2.5.4 SimpleX Chat was updated to 6.0.5 sing-box was updated to 1.9.7 Sound Recorder Plus was updated to 1.1.1 Spotube was updated to 3.8.3 Taler Wallet was updated to 0.13.3 The One App was updated to 2.0.0 Transistor - Simple Radio App was updated to 4.2.1 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.15.4 Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.40.1 VLC was updated to 3.5.6 Wuxia Learn - Learn Chinese was updated to 1.2.2 Autumn Cleaning We are slowing down in the archiving department, then again we’ve never deep dived this much for years. All thanks to you, the contributors that help out! We’ve added some recommendations for alternative apps in past TWIF posts too, if you expanded the full list and checked them out, but if you have better ones feel free to reach out and we can update these lists for future reference. You can read week 38th TWIF explanatory section for more details about why archiving happens. Archived Apps 62 apps were archived (expand for the full list) /d/gapps: Delete/disable GApps /system/app mover: Add and remove system apps Addi: Math calculation environment Ambient Weather DashClock Extension: Ambient Weather on Lockscreen Androsens 2: Monitor sensor data AndroSS: Screenshot capturing AndSys ~ Apps: Package information AnXray: A universal proxy toolchain with XTLS support Apps Organizer: Organize apps with labels Baby Care Timer: Know when to feed the baby Birthday Buddy: Minimalistic app to remember your friend’s birthdays and anniversaries BlitzTypeKeyboard: Android custom keyboard with special keys for the WOT Blitz game Blue Minimal: Minimalistic CM12+ theme ChocoUI (XDA colors): Chocolate/XDA theme for Cyanogenmod Clock: app that contains: clock, alarm, timer, stopwatch Color Picker: Display color codes of a touched point on a photo Contact Book: Manage your contacts in a local addressbook Cool Reader: E-book reader Countdown for DashClock: Countdown on the lock screen DashClock Birthday Extension: Show upcoming birthdays in your lockscreen DashClock: Battery: Battery info on the lock-screen DashClock: DashCricket: Cricket scores on the lock-screen Dashclock: Last Caller: Previous caller on lock screen DashClock: Sunrise: Sunrise and sunset info on lock-screen Diode: Interact with Reddit DuOTP: Log in to Duo-protected services with any standard OTP app Enhancement: White theme for CM13 eSpeak TTS: Text-to-Speech Engine (Android 14+ compatible RHVoice or the not yet updated eSpeak NG are better) Flight Mode: Widget to toggle flight mode Great Freedom: Theme for CyanogenMod GSMmap: GSM Security Mapper GTalkSMS: Control your phone via XMPP HackDash: Hackerspace extension for DashClock HashEasily: Calculate hash checksums of files Hexiano: Musical instrument Intent Intercept: Attempts to catch Intents in order to examine their contents JellyRevenge: Dark/Holo based theme for Cyanogenmod KurobaEx: Free and open source image board browser Lesser Pad: Simple memo pad Little Sir Echo: Repeat SMS notifications Loaned: Keep track of loaned items Maniana: User-friendly todo list MaterialOS: Material Design CyanogenMod 12/12.1 theme MoClock: A small, minimal clock app Music: Lightweight and Material designed Music Player My Location Widget: Homescreen widget Mytronome: Use your smartphone as a metronome Nekogram X: The third-party Telegram android app (We have Forkgram, Mercurygram and the one that started it all Telegram FOSS) NFC Tag maker: Make NFC Smart posters Notification Notes: Add notes and show them as notifications oandbackup: Backup manager (Try Neo Backup) OI Shopping list: Keep track of your shopping items Orgzly: Outliner for notes and tasks in plain-text (We hope the developer is in good health, but 2 years have passed and Orgzly Revived works fine) Pitcha: Pitch detector Quill: Pen note-taking Shortyz: Crossword game To Do List: Manage your to-do lists quickly and easily UniPatcher: Utility to apply patches to ROMs USB Mountr: Use your device as a USB flash drive WebApps: Sandbox for webapps WhereRing: Setup your phone to switch among vibrate, ring, or silent according to GPS 注音倉頡輸入法: Keyboard for zh_TW (We have newer apps, see TWIF 16 Nov 2023) Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF, and for your patience while we maintain and polish the F-Droid experience. 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 10 Oct 2024, Week 41 F-Droid core Nothing new to add, just that we hope more users get a chance to test 1.21.0-alpha1, and if you did not already, do peruse the full announcement from last week. The more of you test it, and complain, the faster we can polish it and release it. If you’re not using F-Droid in English, do test the alpha, and please take a look at your locale translation completion status in the Translation portal. Do try to get your translations to 100% complete and fix the failing checks! Community News Do You Have a Moment to Talk about F-Droid? If you’re reading this you might know a thing or two about F-Droid, but maybe you want to help a friend or guide them through a first time installation? While a picture might be worth 1000 words, the people from GNU/Linux.ch have a post and a 7 minute video that explain how to install F-Droid and Fennec, the browser based on Mozilla Firefox. While they’re in German, one does not need to understand the language of wurst, sauerkraut und pretzel to be able to follow the steps. Have fun watching! PPSSPP, the PSP emulator, was updated to 1.17.1 after 9 years! The changelog would be huge, but you can read the app news page and pickup interesting release notes over the years. Ruler (Privacy Friendly) was updated to 1.1.1 after 8 years of hibernation. I guess you already measured everything by now, but none the less. VLC was updated to 3.5.5, but don’t get excited, this is just a targetsdk bump and nothing else. We’re already looking at the next beta version, feel free to lend a hand if you can. Newly Added Apps 6 apps were newly added Aer - Fork of Anemo: Private storage utility for android with support for external storage media Birthday Countdown: An App counting down to your next birthday Emotic: Reignite the love for emoticons FutharkBoard: Elder Futhark keyboard for Android Qalculate!: Powerful and versatile multi-purpose calculator RetroDrawing: A simple drawing app with big pixels and fixed palette Updated Apps 160 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) addy.io (formerly AnonAddy) was updated to v5.3.2 Amber was updated to 2.0.5 APK Explorer & Editor was updated to v0.29 ArcaneChat was updated to 1.46.20 Arcticons was updated to 11.0.5 Arcticons Black was updated to 11.0.5 Arcticons Day & Night was updated to 11.0.5 Arcticons Material You was updated to 11.0.5 Aria for Misskey was updated to 0.15.0 Audio Spectrum Analyzer was updated to 2.7 Aurora Store was updated to 4.6.2 Avare was updated to 11.0.2 BedrockStation (Pro) was updated to 1.2-pro BendyStraw was updated to 1.2.0 BetterCounter was updated to 4.9.4 Bible Notify was updated to 4.8 bilimiao was updated to 2.3.10 Bitmask was updated to 1.4.1 Bluetooth Remote was updated to 1.4.0 Butterfly was updated to 2.2.0 Cache Cleaner was updated to 2.2.9 Camera Date Folders was updated to 1.3.2p Capy Reader was updated to 2024.10.1058 Cartes IGN was updated to 3.1.16 Celestia was updated to 1.7.8 Chance was updated to 1.2.1 Chip Defense was updated to 1.43 Cirrus was updated to 3.2 Citrine was updated to 0.5.1 Ciyue was updated to 0.9.0 Clash Meta For Android was updated to 2.11.1.Meta Clipious was updated to 1.22.2 Clock was updated to 2.8 Compass was updated to 1.14.5 CPU Info was updated to 6.0.1 Daily Dozen was updated to 27 Delta Icon Pack was updated to 1.9.6 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.215.0 EasySync was updated to 1.11 EBT New Note was updated to 0.79.0 EinkBro was updated to 12.1.0 Endless Sky was updated to 0.10.9-45 Energize was updated to 0.10.1 Ente Photos was updated to 0.9.46 FairEmail was updated to 1.2235 Find My Device (FMD) was updated to 0.7.1 Findroid was updated to 0.15.3 Freebloks was updated to 1.6.2 Fucks Given was updated to 1.0.5 Föhnix was updated to 4.0 Gauguin was updated to 0.31.0 Ghost Commander was updated to 1.64b2 GPTMobile was updated to 0.5.0 Graded - Grade tracker was updated to 2.7.0 Gramophone was updated to 1.0.13 Green: Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 4.0.35 Grit was updated to 1.3.1 Grocy: Self-hosted Grocery Management was updated to 3.6.0 Home Assistant was updated to 2024.9.4-minimal i2pd was updated to 2.54.0 ICSx⁵ was updated to 2.2.5 Immich was updated to 1.117.0 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.0.11 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.6.0 Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated to Build100.6.8 Invoice Ninja was updated to 5.0.171 Jitsi Meet was updated to 24.5.0 Journalize was updated to 1.1.0 Kanji Dojo was updated to 2.1.3 Karbon was updated to 2.7.3 Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered was updated to 1.4.8 KDE Connect was updated to 1.32.5 Keep Alive was updated to 1.3.0 Kepler-App was updated to 2.6.2 Kid3 was updated to 3.9.6 Kin Nai D was updated to 1.0.7 KISS Launcher was updated to 3.21.3 Kotatsu was updated to 7.6.2 LavSeeker was updated to 2.5 LibreOffice 2024 Schedule was updated to 1.66.1-LibreOffice-Edition LinkDroid for Linkwarden was updated to 1.1.1 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.2.1-rc.0 Mastodon was updated to 2.7.2 Material Notes was updated to 1.7.0 Metronome was updated to 1.6.2 Micro REPL was updated to 1.5 Mill was updated to 5.0.0 Minetest was updated to 5.9.1 MoasdaWiki App was updated to 3.9.1.0 MOROway App was updated to 10.1.0 MuPDF mini was updated to 1.24.10a MuPDF viewer was updated to 1.24.10a MusicSearch was updated to 1.7.0-beta.3 My Expenses was updated to 3.8.9 NanoLedger was updated to 0.6.1 Next Actualités informatiques was updated to 2.8.0 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20241008 Notesnook - Private notes app was updated to 3.0.18 Obtainium was updated to 1.1.26 Ogre Sample Browser was updated to 14.3.0 Olauncher was updated to v4.3.4 Open Sudoku was updated to 4.0.10 Openlib was updated to 1.0.8 OpenTracks was updated to v4.14.0 Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline was updated to 2024.10.04-7-FDroid Orgro was updated to 1.42.2 Orgzly Revived was updated to 1.8.27 OSM Dashboard for OpenTracks was updated to 4.3.0 OSM Dashboard Offline for OpenTracks was updated to 4.3.0 Pachli for Mastodon was updated to 2.8.2 Pagan was updated to 1.5.7 Peristyle was updated to v3.1.0 PhotoChiotte was updated to 1.57 Pie Launcher was updated to 1.20.1 Pineapple Lock Screen (OSS) was updated to 1.4.0-oss Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 6.9.1 Presence Publisher was updated to 2.6.4 ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to 5.6.8.0 RailTrip was updated to 1.5.1 Railway station photos was updated to 15.3.0 Rank-My-Favs was updated to 0.5.2 Recording Studio Lite was updated to 0.1.5 RidgeScout was updated to 0.5 Riseup VPN was updated to 1.4.1 RunnerUp was updated to 2.8.0.0 Saber was updated to 0.25.0 Satunes was updated to 2.3.2 Save Locally: Share2Storage was updated to 1.3.3 SBW was updated to 2.5.9 Shadowsocks was updated to 5.3.4-nightly Shadowsocks TV was updated to 5.3.4-nightly Share Paste O2 was updated to 2024.10.05 Sharing was updated to v1.5.2-beta1 Shattered Pixel Dungeon was updated to 2.5.3 Shitter was updated to 3.5.9 ShowCase was updated to 1.0 SimpleMarkdown was updated to 2024.10.0-free SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 2.2 Spotube was updated to 3.8.2 SshDaemon was updated to 2.1.19 Street­Complete was updated to 59.2 Stroke Input Method (筆畫輸入法) was updated to 1.3.0 Taskbar was updated to 6.2.2 Terminal Emulator was updated to 5.2.0/X Threema Libre was updated to 5.5.1l Thumb-Key was updated to 3.4.15 Timed Shutdown [No Root] was updated to v2.70 Tinc Mesh VPN was updated to 0.42 Traditional T9 was updated to 39.0 TRIfA was updated to 1.0.236 Tuta Mail was updated to 246.241004.0 Unciv was updated to 4.13.14 Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.40.0 Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.18.2 WhatSave was updated to 1.4.2 Wikipedia was updated to r/2.7.50504-r-2024-10-01 Wire • Secure Messenger was updated to 4.8.5-29411-fdroid YAACC was updated to 4.2.0 Zulip was updated to 27.231 µLauncher was updated to j-0.0.12 Autumn Cleaning Is there a perfect number of apps? Was 4480 that? Is 3850? We say it might not matter. While devices come year after year with more storage and faster processors, your number of installed apps might be constant by now. Besides the usual calls and SMS apps what do you have? A gallery app, a video player, a couple of file readers (PDF/office type), a notes/todo app, file manager, email, browser, maps app, an encrypted messaging app, maybe a couple of games, audio recorder, a 2FA app, calculator, calendar, audio&video player, keyboard, a step counter, maybe some more niche things. How many are those, 25-30? Even less as some come with your device already? Two years ago we said: “From the point of the user, the ideal app store would contain exactly what the user wants, and not one thing more. Nobody has millions of apps installed on their device. All those extra apps just get in the way of finding what is important”. And we stand by that. Do we have quirky apps? Of course we do, else life would be boring (just don’t search for “strawberry”or “worm”). But these are just icing on top of good, transparent, free or open-source apps that put their purpose over flashy UIs and care about the user’s wellbeing without trying to sell their lifehood to the highest bidder. We continue the trend of looking at more apps from the past and moving some to the Archive repo. You can read week 38th TWIF explanatory section for more details. Archived Apps 204 apps were archived (expand for the full list) $HELL: Terminal emulator with integrated script editor 2048: Puzzle game 920 Editor: Text editor A Time Tracker: Easily start/stop time tracking for activities aCalDAV: Synchronize calendar with a CalDAV server Add to calendar: Import .ics files into calendar AiCiA: IRC client aLogcat: View system and app log aLogcat ROOT: View color-coded, Android device (logcat) logs directly from your phone androidVNC: VNC (remote desktop) viewer (Plenty to install) APG: Encrypt email and files APKShare: Extract and share you installed apps’ APK App Tracker: Track your app usage AppBak: Back up list of installed apps Applications Info: Show metadata of installed applications AppOpsX: A front-end for the AppOpsService Arity: Scientific calculator (Get the updated fork) arXiv mobile: Client for arXiv.org arXiv Papers: Search, download and save arXiv scientific papers Battery Charge Limit: Stops charging at a desired level BatteryCalibration: Calibrate your battery BeHe Keyboard: Hacking & programming keyboard with material design BeHe Pro: Browse the web BookList: Unofficial Google Books viewer Booky McBookface eReader: An extremely unfancy and very basic ebook reader Brightness Widget: Change brightness on the homescreen Caffeine Tile: Keep your device from sleeping Calculator: Make calculations Calculator: Stylish calculator CalDAV Sync Adapter: Synchronize calendar with a CalDAV server Calendar ICS adapter: Import and export calendar files Call recorder for Android: Record calls (2 apps shared this name, so much for imagination) CatLog: View the system log Chord Reader: Chords for guitar players Chord Reader: Search for, display, transpose and save chords on your phone Compass: Graphical compass Congress Fahrplan: Overview of all talks of the Chaos Communication Congress Contact Widget: Scroll through your contacts on the home screen Debatekeeper: Time debates Debian Kit: Install Debian alongside your system (Maybe try AnLinux) DeskCon: Integrate mobile devices with a desktop Dialer2: Clean T9-like dialer DroidRec: Record your screen Easy Weather: Easy and quick weather app EasyLight: Flashlight Emerald Launcher: Simple custom home screen Export Contacts: Export contacts to a file Face Slim: Connect to Facebook Faenza ADW Theme: ADW theme Fairphone 1 Launcher: Launcher originally designed for the Fairphone 1 Fairphone 2 Launcher: Launcher originally designed for the Fairphone 2 Fairphone Clock Widget: Clock widget originally designed for the Fairphone 2 FAST App Search Tool: Find apps just by typing FASTer App Search Tool: Find apps just by typing FastHub-Libre: A GitHub client app built from ground up (A great client, greatly missed! OctoDroid appears to be in great shape) FBReader: An e-book reader FBReader TTS+ Plugin: Enhanced TTS plugin for FBReader Fedi Photo: Fedi Photo - quickly post photos to the Fediverse (One of these might be better) File Explorer: File Manager File Manager: CyanogenMod file manager backport File Manager Pro: File manager FindMyPhone: Helps you find a mislaid phone Flashlight: Use camera LED as flashlight Forecast widgets: Weather Widget Frost: Monotone icon pack FrostWire: File-sharing and searching Gasflow: Show network speed in the status bar Gear Shift: Manage Transmission bittorent client GitHub: Official Github client Good Weather: Display weather information Graph 89: Calculator emulator with TI84 support HashPass: Use hashes as passwords HgLauncher: A launcher for a slow day Hydrate: Set targets for water intake Import Contacts: Restore contacts from a file Instant Sound Effects: Make your friends laugh with four great free sound effects Jelly Clock: Simple clock widget JfCupsPrintService: Connect to CUPS/IPP network printers JLyr Lyrics: Get lyrics JumpGo: Browse the web Just Notes: Take notes with import and export features Just Player: Music player Just Player Plugin: Ampache: Ampache plugin for Just Player Just Player Plugin: Podcast: Podcast plugin for Just-Player KanaDrill: Learn the Japanese kana Kernel Adiutor: Manage kernel parameters Kinolog: Search and log watched movies kure Music Player: Music player Launch App Ops: Show a hidden screen Launcher: A distraction-free minimal homescreen for Android LeafPic: View your images and galleries LeafPic Revived: A full-featured gallery app Lexic: Word Game LinConnect: Mirror notifications to desktop Lyrically: A lyrics app which works everywhere MaterialFBook: Browse Facebook Materialistic: Interact with the “Hacker news” site MatLog Libre: Material Design logcat reader based on CatLog Metronome: A light and reliable metronome Metronome: Produces an audible click at a regular interval mGerrit: Gerrit client Midori: lightweight, fast and free web browser for Android Minesweeper: Classic minesweeper game MineSweeper: Clear minefield without detonating a mine miniNoteViewer: Note taker with encryption MobileOrg: TODO list/task management MouseApp: Mastodon multi-instances client Movie DB: Search through movies and series and save them in a local offline database MPDroid: MPD (Music Player Daemon) client My App List: Ex- and import list of installed applications NDKmol: Molecule viewer Network Monitor: Check network connectivity nicoWnnG: Keyboard for JA No-frills CPU Control CLASSIC: Set CPU modes NoLauncher: An extremely lightweight launcher NoteBuddy: Store encrypted notes Notepad: Basic note taking Notepad: Take notes OI File Manager: File manager OI Flashlight: Helps you find your way in the dark OI Notepad: Take notes OI Safe: Password and private data manager Open Aviation Map: Display aviation maps Open Explorer Beta: File manager Open FlashLight: Camera LED toggle Open Manager: A simple file browser and manager OpenAPK: A material design app manager forked from ML Manager OpenCanteen: An unofficial client for the iCanteen food system OpenTimer: Countdown Timer OpenWnn: Japanese Input method OpenWnn Legacy: zh_CN/ja keyboard Password Hash: Create passwords for each website Pedometer: Count your steps Pedometer: Measure your steps (Step up to this app instead) Performance Control: System configuration Petronius: Wardrobe assistant Pixiv for Muzei: Muzei art source extension for Pixiv Plain UPnP - UPnP / DLNA server and browser: UPnP control point application PodListen: Podcast player with lightweight interface Pomodoro: Productivity timer Pomodoro Tasks: Task Manager Power Ampache: A material design player for Ampache (There’s a version two out there) Pretty Good Music Player: Folder-based, no frills music player qBittorrent Client Pro: Companion app for qBittorrent client QuickSnap: Basic camera app Recent Contacts Widget: Access contact info quickly ReLaunch: Launcher for eInk/eBook devices Remote for VLC: Control VLC with your phone Riksdagskollen: Allow users to keep track of the Swedish parliament Scanner For Zotero: Get bibliographic information for ISBN barcodes Scarlet FDroid: Quick and beautiful note-taking Search Based Launcher: Minimalistic home-screen (Yes, you know already, KISS) Search Light: LED Flashlight sesam: Hash based password manager ShoLi: Shopping lists manager Simple IRC: Connect to an IRC server Simple Rss: RSS reader Simple ToDo: To-Do / Task list with beautiful minimalistic design and reminders Simple Weather: Get weather information Simply Do: Simple item list manager Sithakuru: Libre Sinhala Keyboard SlimSocial for Twitter: Access Twitter Smart Receipts: Save Time: Photograph Receipts, Track Mileage, and Create Expense Reports SMS Backup+: Backup SMS, MMS and call history to IMAP SNotepad: Take notes Sound Recorder: Record audio files Sound Recorder: Record your voice STweaks: Kernel configuration Subsonic: Play media across the network Superuser: Manage root access (2 apps shared this name, so much for imagination) SuperUStats Usage stats viewer: View Android “usage stats” (statistics about what apps you are using how often Swiftnotes: Take notes Symphony: A genre and album based music player Talalarmo: Minimal, simple and free alarm clock thoughtfully designed by nap enthusiasts Ted: Lightweight text editor TEdit : A text editor with graphical file browser Tensor: Matrix (chat) client (Spoiler alert! Latest Element X update is building while your read this) Text Fairy: An OCR App (I’d try OCR based on Tesseract 5) TextWarrior: Text editor Tinc: Port of Tinc VPN Tinfoil for Facebook: Facebook browser with privacy Tinfoil for Twitter: Twitter browser with privacy Tint Browser: Web browser Tint Browser Adblock Addon: Ad blocker To Do: TODO lists Toe: Tic Tac Toe game Torch: LED Torch Torchlight: Use the flash of your camera as a light TrebleShot: Send and receive files over available connections (LocalSend works nice) Tricorder: Sci-fi gadget TurtlePlayer: Audio player TV KILL: Turn off TVs Twik: Manage and generate secure passwords UBIC Wallet: Wallet for the Unconditional Basic InCome Urecord: Audio Recorder WateryDroid: WateryDroid is a very a very very simple and small app to remind you to drink water Weather Widget: Add widget to home screen with weather 5 to 7 day weather forecast Wi-Fi Matic: Toggle Wi-Fi based on location WorkTime: Tracks your work time (I heard Track Work Time is fine) Writeily Pro: Edit markdown files XBMC Remote: XBMC Media Center Remote Control Yaaic: IRC (chat) client Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF and for translating F-Droid Client, specially since 1.21.0 was just tagged, but maybe you still have time to check and polish your locale. 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I believe privacy and freedom are fundamental rights and should be available to everyone in the world. A few years ago, I’ve started translating FOSS apps on Weblate, which has evolved to me being a maintainer of many projects, including F-Droid. Now I’ve finally finished reviewing all website strings and I’m happy to announce that the website is now also available in the Czech language! F-Droid is used by many even here in the Czech Republic, and I believe this will help even more users to discover this awesome project. Many thanks also to the past volunteer translators, without whom the translation would have taken me much longer. If you think you can also help with translating F-Droid, feel free to! You can find all information in the documentation. You can also help F-Droid by contributing to the code, reporting issues or making a donation. Any help is appreciated! If you need to contact me, you can find me in the F-Droid Translators room on Matrix. Next step is translating the documentation and posts, so if you can lend a hand, I’d be very happy! And of course, thanks to all F-Droid maintainers and contributors for making this awesome project!

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 their own thing in the background, and the old client codebase was still from 2016 or so. Development finally caught up implementing modern scheduling that’s shaped by the system and by you, its user, taking advantage of networks being available, idle times and more. The full changelog since the last alpha0 is: Rewritten repo updater to make background updates more reliable Time of next scheduled update visible in settings Fix case insensitive search containing diacritics (Thanks Tobias!) Fix crash when deleting repo from repo details screen Update anti-feature descriptions (Thanks Licaon!) Add tethered net anti-feature (Thanks linsui!) Ignore whitespaces when adding mirror repos (Thanks Tobias!) Of note from that list, in Settings - Automatic update interval now there’s info about when the next update is scheduled, and it dynamically updates based on the frequency slider. Keep in mind that the Over Wi-Fi and Over data slider settings still govern over everything, so if you see “next: 2hr. ago” it means that the deadline was exceeded and the next time you are on the allowed network it will check for updates. But given that F-Droid supports delta-updates for a while now, this might change in the future, as each index update is just a few hundred kilobytes big making mobile data consumption a moot point. Another change that you might want to revise, TetheredNet is now a separate anti-feature too. We explained last month how it came to be, and we ask you to toggle it ON in Settings - Include Anti-Features now until the upgrade bugs are fixed. As usual we want you to give this update a good look so bugs can be shallow and a stable release comes sooner for everybody. To update to this alpha you can go into F-Droid details screen and either, expand Versions and manually upgrade, or go to the upper right menu and check “Allow Beta Updates”. NOTE: A bug was found later in the development process and if you run both F-Droid and F-Droid Basic, only one can be updated to the latest alpha. The permission conflict was fixed subject of a future release. Community News Trevor Slocum, the developer of Xenia, Meditation Assistant and Boxcars, has some nice words to say “On the importance of F-Droid”. The 8 minutes long piece might shed some light from the perspective of an app developer, touching upon many themes we sometimes rant in these TWIFs too. Have a good read! LabNex, Android app for GitLab, is a nice addition, from the developer of GitNex for Forgejo and Gitea, and being in development, we hope it will surpass the already old and crusty LabCoat. For good measure we also started to ‘bomb’ the developer with feature requests. 😁 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.2.0 and Linwood Butterfly will come by the time you read this TWIF. Its developer, CodeDoctor, wanted us to highlight some of the new features like: 📁 New layer system ✅️ Improved multi select in file view ⚙️ New on startup settings 🔧 Restriction options for manipulating elements 🧰 Improved toolbar Plus many more things that you can read about in the dedicated post. While checking the pulse of the apps we also dug some missed updates, 12 years is not that late, right? Anyway, here’s the list: DAAP was updated to 1.0.4 Fish Rings for Android was updated to 1.21 Liquid Wars OS was updated to 1.43 Password Master was updated to 1.3.0 Scribe4 was updated to 1.01 Timidity AE was updated to 3.0.6 Tuty Fruty Slot for Android was updated to 1.11 Vitosha Decision Maker was updated to 1.04 WorldMap was updated to 3.1 Newly Added Apps 12 more apps were newly added Anytime Podcast Player: The easy to use open-source podcast player for mobile and tablet BedrockStation (Pro): Connect your PlayStation’s Minecraft to third-party servers Exfilac: Simple, reliable, automated S3 uploads for Android Findroid: Third-party native Jellyfin app Kin Nai D: Let ‘Kin Nai D’ help you choose what you want to eat! LinkDroid for Linkwarden: Quickly access your Linkwarden instance and share new links with it LxReader: E-book reader MusicSearch: MusicSearch is an app for browsing songs, artists, and anything related to them Network Survey: Displays and Logs Cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GNSS Network Survey Details RidgeScout: A fully featured FRC scouting & data analytics tool Share 2 Archive Today: Share a URL to Archive.today and Archive.is Worm 🐍: Worm is worm, 🐍 wrom 🐍🪱 Downgraded Apps 1 app was downgraded Aria2App was downgraded from 5.9.18 to 5.9.16 as its package size was bloated and we’ll rebuild the app to fix it. Updated Apps 139 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) AntennaPod was updated to 3.5.0 Anuto TD was updated to 0.13 Apollo was updated to 1.5.15 Arcticons was updated to 10.8.4 Arcticons Black was updated to 10.8.4 Arcticons Day & Night was updated to 10.8.4 Arcticons Material You was updated to 10.8.4 Audile was updated to 1.6.0 Binary Eye was updated to 1.63.12 Blitzortung Lightning Monitor was updated to 2.2.5 Book’s Story was updated to 1.3.0 Boxcars was updated to 1.4.2 Cache Cleaner was updated to 2.2.7 CAPod - Companion for AirPods was updated to 2.15.0-rc0 Capy Reader was updated to 2024.09.1053-dev Cartes IGN was updated to 3.1.13 Celestia was updated to 1.7.7 Chance was updated to 1.2.0 Chip Defense was updated to 1.42 Citrine was updated to 0.5.0 Clipious was updated to 1.22.1 CoinTrend: Private Crypto Tracker was updated to 1.3.2 Conversations was updated to 2.16.7+free Cryptomator was updated to 1.10.3 Cuscon was updated to 4.0.3.7 DevQS was updated to 1.1.0 Dicio assistant was updated to 2.0 Drinkable was updated to 1.54.1 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.214.1 Easter Eggs was updated to 3.0.1 Easy Launcher - Minimal launcher was updated to 0.2.6 Ente Auth was updated to 4.0.3 Ente Photos was updated to 0.9.42 Every Door was updated to 5.2.0 FairEmail was updated to 1.2234 FediPhoto-Lineage was updated to 7.4 Feeder was updated to 2.6.32 FlashDim - Dim your flashlight was updated to 2.3.4 floccus bookmark sync was updated to 5.3.0 Flux News was updated to 1.7.1 Fossify Gallery was updated to 1.2.1 Gallery for PhotoPrism was updated to 1.31.0 GCompris was updated to 4.2 Ghost Commander was updated to 1.64b1 GitNex for Forgejo and Gitea was updated to 6.0.0 Gramophone was updated to 1.0.12 GreenStash: Track Your Savings was updated to 3.9.1 HabsGleich was updated to 1.8.2 Hacki for Hacker News was updated to 2.9.4 Headphone indicator was updated to 1.1.0 Hisn Elmoslem was updated to 2.9.01 hwloc lstopo was updated to 2.11.2-1-1.6.0 Immich was updated to 1.116.2 InfiniList was updated to 1.2.1 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.0.9 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.5.0 Inner Breeze was updated to 1.3.6 Invoice Ninja was updated to 5.0.169 IzzyOnDroid was updated to v0.13 Jellyfin for Android TV was updated to 0.17.6 Jerboa for Lemmy was updated to 0.0.77 Joplin was updated to 3.1.4 KDE Connect was updated to 1.32.3 Keep it up was updated to 1.5.0 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 1.0.0-alpha.9 Klick’r - Smart AutoClicker was updated to 3.0.4 Kotatsu was updated to 7.6 Kwik EFIS was updated to 6.16 Linkora was updated to 0.8.2 LogFox was updated to 2.0.2 MediLog was updated to 3.0.5 MedTimer was updated to 1.10.0 Meshenger was updated to 4.3.8 Mullvad VPN: privacy is a universal right was updated to 2024.5-beta2 Musify was updated to 8.6.0 Mute reminder was updated to 2.12 Myne: Download & Read eBooks was updated to 4.2.1 NeatLauncher was updated to 1.2 neutriNote CE was updated to 4.5.3g Nex Notes was updated to 1.6 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20240930 Nextcloud Talk was updated to 20.0.2 Notesnook - Private notes app was updated to 3.0.18 NÖ Finderlein was updated to 2.0.20 Obtainium was updated to 1.1.23 Oinkoin was updated to 1.0.69 OpenAthena™ for Android was updated to 0.21.3 OpenWrt Manager was updated to 1.35.0 Orion Viewer - Pdf & Djvu was updated to 0.95.1 ownCloud was updated to 4.4.0 OwnTracks was updated to 2.5.3 PipePipe was updated to 3.8.2 PocketTRacker was updated to 2.2.0 Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 6.8.2 Power Ampache 2 was updated to 1.00-68-fdroid Prepaid Balance was updated to 2.8 Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to 1.25.1 PTO - Plaintext Organizer was updated to 3.1.1 QRAlarm was updated to 1.7.1 Quicksy was updated to 2.16.7+free Qwotable was updated to 3.0 Rank-My-Favs was updated to 0.5.1 Readrops was updated to 2.0.1 RoMote was updated to 1.0.27 Rush was updated to 2.3.1 RustDesk was updated to 1.3.1 Saber was updated to 0.24.7 Safe Space was updated to 2.0.6 Satunes was updated to 2.3.1 SCEE was updated to 59.1 SD Maid 2/SE - System Cleaner was updated to 1.2.7-rc0 Session was updated to 1.20.0 Share Paste O2 was updated to 2024.09.26 ShiftCal was updated to 1.9.2 Simple Sudoku Game was updated to 0.2.0 SiYuan was updated to 3.1.8 SkyTube was updated to 2.991 SkyTube Legacy was updated to 2.991 Standard Notes was updated to 3.195.1 Street­Complete was updated to 59.1 Suntimes was updated to 0.16.2 Syncthing was updated to 1.27.12.1 Thumb-Key was updated to 3.4.13 Tilde Friends was updated to 0.0.23 Tinc Mesh VPN was updated to 0.41 Tournant was updated to 2.8.1 trale was updated to 0.7.2 TTRSS-Reader was updated to 1.97.6 Unchained was updated to 1.3.3 Unciv was updated to 4.13.12 Valentin’s PowerTools #002 - Passwords to remember was updated to 1.0.6 Valentin’s PowerTools #036 - Ease The Waiting was updated to 1.1.1 Valv was updated to 1.11.0 Watomatic - Auto Reply For WhatsApp was updated to 1.29 WG Tunnel was updated to 3.5.2 Xtra was updated to 2.37.0 YAM Launcher was updated to 1.5 Yatoo was updated to 0.9.0 Yubico Authenticator was updated to 7.1.0 Autumn Cleaning We continue the trend of looking at more apps from the past and moving some to the Archive repo. You can read last week’s explanatory section for more details. Special thanks to Aholic Gino for contributing the time to test most of these apps and help keep F-Droid repo fit. Users often complain about having too many choices of apps for some tasks (paradoxically) but more often complain that they need to swim between old apps that might not even work let alone have a future. Archived Apps 157 apps were archived (expand for the full list) #FFF Info: Get all information about your climate strike aagtl: Geocaching aide Android SDK Search: SDK Search lets you easily browse the Android SDK documentation Angel Player Live Wallpaper: Anime animated wallpaper Aniki: A minimalist MyAnimeList client Anonymous Messenger: A peer to peer private anonymous and secure messenger that works over Tor (Do try Briar, a p2p over Tor messenger) AnySoftKeyboard: Lithuanian: Language pack for AnySoftKeyboard AOKP.co: Wrapper for AOKP website Apollo: Music player AppAlarm Pro: App Alarm Arch packages: Arch Linux packages browser. The application makes use of the official API Ardroid: Remote control for Ardour Audiometry Made Easy: Test your hearing capabilities Baby Sleep Sounds: Play sounds to help babies sleep Barnacle Wifi Tether: Ad-hoc Wi-Fi Access Point BasketBuild Downloader: Download roms from s.basketbuild.com Binaural Beats Therapy: Sound to brainwave harmonizer blabber.im: is an Open Source XMPP/Jabber Messenger for Android (Both Cheogram and monocles chat have ported its unique features) Blacklist Blocker: Block unwanted calls and/or SMS Black★Rock Shooter: Animated Wallpaper: Black Rock Shooter Live Wallpaper blippex: Client for a search engine Blockinger: Tetris clone Budget Watch: Help manage your personal budget Calendula: Manage medical prescription#FFF Car Report: Track your car costs Chapel Hill Transit: Get information on Chapel Hill (NC) Transit CLT 2023 Schedule: Conference schedule for the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage (CLT) Colorpicker: Pick colors and display values CommonsLab: Browse and contribute Wikimedia Commons Cool Reader: E-book reader CrimeTalk: CrimeTalk is a free educational resource for criminology Cryptix: a minimalist unit/code converter CyanogenMod Installer: CyanogenMod Install Helper DailybRead: Find random books for you to read and download from a huge, free library DashClock Widget: Extensible lock screen widget DebConf Schedule: Program app for the DebConf conference DEfO ECH Apps: Experimental fork of F-Droid to use TLS ECH with Cloudflare as the default host DictionaryForMIDs: Offline dictionaries Digitales Klassenzimmer: The digital classroom of the Hopp Foundation Document Viewer Font Pack: Extra fonts for Document Viewer Driibo: Client for Dribbble Drinks: Search and display cocktail recipes dvd: 📀 Download videos from anywhere ElloShare: Share pictures via Ello Episodes: Track TV shows you have seen Eshotroid: Bus times in Turkey Eventyay Attendee App: Events app to checkout nearby events Eventyay Organizer App: Event management app for Organizers using eventyay platform FasterGPS: Faster GPS fix FfF Profile picture generator: Fridays for Future (Germany) profile picture generator FON Access: Auto connect to FON network FP1-EPO-Autoupdate: Automatically updates the EPO.DAT on the Fairphone Fritter: A free, open-source Twitter client FrOSCon: FrOSCon 2014 Schedule Galbijjim Searcher: Search images from the web GameBoid: Nintendo Gameboy Advance emulator GameDealz: A non-official client for IsThereAnyDeal.com GBCoid: Gameboy Color (Nintendo) emulator GeoPaparazzi: Field survey tool GigaGet: An open-source multi-thread download manager for Android gophercle: a gopher client Greater Sudbury Transit: Get bus departure and arrival times for Sudbury Greentooth: Automatic Bluetooth disabler Hashr: Calculate and compare checksum hashes Helsinki Testbed Viewer 2.0: Weather maps Home Launcher: Launch apps by swiping the home button iFixit: iFixit: Gadget repair manual ImapNotes2: Sync your notes with iOs devices and different accounts like Gmail and others (The new version is ImapNotes3) Impeller: Client for the Pump.io network Internet Radio: Listen to Internet radio stations Inventory: This application is the Android Inventory Agent JAWS: Just another Wi-Fi scanner KeepingTracks: Keep track of your rail journeys Last Launcher: Faster than Light launch: fast, productive and easy-to-use launcher for android LBRY F-Droid: Browser and wallet for LBRY, a free, open, and community-run digital marketplace License: Search and read software licenses LinuxDayOSM: Info on Linux day events in Italy LocDemo: Get your geolocation from OpenWLANMap MACsposed: Add support for MAC Address spoofing to Android 12 and 13 Messenger bypasser: Redirects “OpenFB Messenger” intents to the web chat MetalabDoorWidget: Door status at Metalab Vienna Micopi+: Create unique contact pictures Mitzuli: Offline Translator Mobile MSJ: Unofficial client for MSJ MobileSWC: Watch sensors in Europe MouseRemote: use your Android device as a laptop touchpad via local Network MozillaNlpBackend: UnifiedNlp location provider (Mozilla) Muspy for Android: Keep track of musicians MyHackerspace: Hackerspace open/closed statuses Nesoid: Nintendo NES emulator Notely: your kaschuso in one simple app NTPSync: Update the device clock Open BART: A free and open source navigator for the BART system. No nonsense. No ads OpenBoard: An opensource keyboard that does not spy on you! (FlorisBoard and HeliBoard are worthy succesors) OpenGApps Downloader: Download OpenGapps zip OpenLauncher: Launch applications and manage homescreen OpenOtago: OpenOtago is an android replacement to Univeristy of Otago’s online resources OpenRecipes: A privacy friendly personal cook book OSRS Helper: View your RuneScape stats Overchan: Browse multiple imageboards Paper Wallet: Totally offline and secure bitcoin paper wallet Pareu de Parar-me: Inform and collect information about racists police raids Piwigo: Access photos in your Piwigo photo gallery Preferences Manager: Edit app preferences Puma: Client for the Pump.io network QKSMS: Messaging app (QUIK SMS is a revival of it, Fossify SMS Messenger is nice too, and we talked before about Silence, encrypted) QRStream: Transfer files and text via successive QR codes raag: Music player app with YouTube audio downloader radio reddit: Listen to music posted on Reddit Rainwave: Client for music station RMaps: Map viewer Run Userinit: Run user init scripts after boot SatPredict: An offline satellite tracking app Save For Offline: Save websites locally ScraperClub: Application for ScraperClub ScummVM: Adventure game player Secrecy: Secure file storage Secret Codes: Secret code scanner Seshat: A minimalist logger/tracker/journal Shaman: FirefoxSync client Share my number: Share your contact information with ease Simple Dilbert: Comic strip reader SimpleThermometer: Show current temperature Sismics Reader: Feed reader Slim Launcher - Fewer distractions, more life: Minimalistic launcher Smarter Wi-Fi Manager: Set Wi-Fi state depending on nearby cell towers SplitBills: Helps you and your friends to split your collective expenses SpotiFlyer: Download All your songs from Spotify, Gaana, Jio Saavn, Youtube Music, SoundClou Stoic Reading: Consolidation of Stoic texts Tachiyomi: Manga reader TD: Watch Twitch video streams Toronto Transit: Bus information for Toronto TPB Proxy: Access for Pirate Bay website TriesteinBus: Arrival times for Trieste public transport TunesViewer: University podcast access Twidere: Microblogging client Twidere Extension: TwitLonger: Extend tweets Twidere X: Next generation of Twidere UpVPN - Serverless VPN: A Modern VPN based on WireGuard URL to PDF Converter: URL to PDF Converter allows users to convert any web page into a PDF file. VDR-Manager: View the EPG and stream TV live from your VDR Vlille Checker: Bicycle info for Lille WarmShowers: A Community of Bicycle Tourists and Those Who Support Them WeatherLog: Log temperature changes Web Opac: Convenient access to 1,000+ public and academic libraries Whale shark and sardines: Live wallpaper Where am I?: Show GPS position on map WikiAndPad: Note taker WikipOff: Download and read Wikipedia offline World Clock & Weather: Display local time and weather conditions X Server: light-weight Android X11 X-Server Xabber Classic: Instant messaging client (See yaxim below) Xposed Downloader: Download Xposed Framework zip yaxim: XMPP (Instant Messaging) client (Just install Conversations!) YouTube Stream: Get YouTube Stream and open it with local application (Maybe VLC and other players can do this by now) Ça reste ouvert: The collaborative map of the places and services opened during the confinement. Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF, and for testing the Client alpha builds, special thanks to those using the Nightlies, FYI that install bug is now fixed! 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. You are welcome to join the TWIF forum thread. If you have any news from the community, post it there, maybe it will be featured next week 😉 To help support F-Droid, please check out the donation page and contribute what you can.

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 the contributors. We have just taken of the last key steps to cementing that: the f-droid.org and related domain names have been migrated to processes that are community-controlled with oversight from the Board of Directors. We thank CiaranG for all his work maintaining the domains over the years. This also eliminates a bottleneck of configuration changes. We have a Systems Adminstration Team for secure and shared maintenance of our key infrastructure. Thanks to funding from Open Tech Fund (OTF), the Systems Adminstration Team set to work making the official F-Droid domains be as secure as possible. We have moved our DNS servers for our official domain f-droid.org. This change helps improve our “bus factor”, which means we are less dependent on a single person to keep the project running smoothly. We’ve used this opporunity to roll out additional DNS security measures. Since the jabber.ru incident happened, it seems to us that both migrating to more trustworthy hosting providers and increasing DNS security is more important than ever. We started by adding a Certification Authority Authorization DNS record. A CAA record is a way for website owners to specify which companies may issue security certificates for their website. This should help us to detect network attacks like the one against jabber.ru. Additionally we have started monitoring certificates of our domain names in certificate transparency logs. This will hopefully help us detect if someone tries to issue a malicious certificate in our name. These measures should significantly raise the bar for man-in-the-middle attacks on our transport encryption. Over the years, we have received many requests to enable DNSSEC for improved security. Rightfully so. Now that we have a new DNS provider, we have successfully rolled it out. We’ve also recently finished moving our email server, a task that was long overdue. F-Droids new email provider now implements all the technical nitty gritties like SPF, DKIM, DMARC, which are ever more important since big E-Mail providers started blocking mails from E-Mail servers without those features.

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 reinstall it. (Yes, we wish this switch to be easier to perform, but the UI is not there yet) Firefox 130 and 130.0.1 were released September 3rd and 17th with 15 security fixes, however Fennec and Mull builds will be delayed due to Google removing a necessary component from the NDK in revision 27, apparently to “save some storage space”. 😐 FlorisBoard was updated to 0.4.0 after a two year pause, if you’re the kind that looks a keyboard in the mouth, do peak at the extensive changelog. Status: Crypto Wallet, Messenger, Ethereum Browser was updated to the newly designed 2.30.0 after an one and a half year hiatus. The feature list is too long, but the devs have a blog post that details everything. (App screenshots will be updated soon) Removed Apps 3 apps were removed ADW.Launcher: Home screen replacement (Just use KISS!) ForceDoze: Enable Doze mode immediately after screen off and turn off motion sensing (The new fork was announced last week, EnforceDoze) Loyalty Card Keychain: Manages barcode-based store/loyalty cards on your phone (Catima is working fine) Newly Added Apps 7 apps were newly added Audio Source: Use an Android device as a USB microphone DigiPaws - Gamify Screentime: Block apps, reels, explicit keywords and more FeedFlow: Minimalistic RSS Reader JMdict droid: A Japanese to English dictionary, based on JMdict Page: The simplest note taking app PTO - Plaintext Organizer: Stay organized with one plaintext file per day Stride: Task management tool that synchronizes with git Updated Apps 123 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) 2048 (Privacy Friendly) was updated to 1.4.0 8-Bit Wonders was updated to 0.8.4 AAAAXY was updated to 1.5.202+20240914.3521.8c236869 Amber was updated to 2.0.3 AndBible: Bible Study was updated to 5.0.832 Aria2App was updated to 5.9.18 aShell was updated to v0.10 Asteroid’s Revenge was updated to 0.11.3 Aurora Store was updated to 4.6.1 Aves Libre was updated to 1.11.13 Binary Eye was updated to 1.63.11 Blocker was updated to 2.0.4839-fdroid Blood pressure monitor was updated to 1.8.0-samsung-fix-2 Boxcars was updated to 1.4.1 BusTO was updated to 2.2.3 Cache Cleaner was updated to 2.2.5 Calendar Import-Export was updated to 2.8.1 Capy Reader was updated to 2024.09.1050-dev Ceno Browser: Share the Web was updated to 2.2.2 Chance was updated to 1.1.0 ChatLaunch for WhatsApp was updated to v0.11.1 Chrono was updated to 0.6.0-beta1 Cirrus was updated to 3.1 Ciyue was updated to 0.8.3 Clipious was updated to 1.21.3 Clock was updated to 2.7 ColorBlendr was updated to v1.8 Cuppa - Tea Timer was updated to 2.8.0 Dark Mode Live Wallpaper was updated to 1.7.2 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.213.0 Easter Eggs was updated to 3.0.0 Easy Launcher - Minimal launcher was updated to 0.2.5 EinkBro was updated to 12.0.0 Enhanced Music Controller Lite was updated to 1.33 Ente Auth was updated to 4.0.0 Fridgey was updated to 2.2 Gas Prices was updated to 2.7 GLPI Agent was updated to 1.5.0 Green: Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 4.0.34 Hacki for Hacker News was updated to 2.9.3 Identify Dog Breeds Pro was updated to 30 InfiniList was updated to 1.2.0 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.0.8 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.4.9 Inner Breeze was updated to 1.3.4 Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated to Build100.6.7 Jerboa for Lemmy was updated to 0.0.76-gplay JMP SIM Manager was updated to jmp-v1.1.1 JS-Dict was updated to 1.2.2 Kanji Dojo was updated to 2.1.2 Kepler-App was updated to 2.6.1 Keysh was updated to 0.1.5 Kid3 was updated to 3.9.6 Ladefuchs was updated to 3.0.1 LinkHub was updated to 1.6.1 Lyrion was updated to 0.8.2 Léon – The URL Cleaner was updated to 43 Materialious was updated to 1.4.3 Mattermost Beta was updated to 2.20.0 Mensinator was updated to 1.9.1 Menu Generator was updated to 1.1.3 mLauncher - Minimal and Clutter Free launcher was updated to 1.6.8 MMRL was updated to 3.24.32 Money Manager Ex was updated to 2024.09.21 monocles browser was updated to 1.9.2 MonsterMusic was updated to 0.1.33 MRMCD 2024 Schedule was updated to 1.66.1-MRMCD-Edition MultiVNC was updated to 2.1.5 My Expenses was updated to 3.8.8 NeoStumbler was updated to 1.3.2 neutriNote CE was updated to 4.5.3f Nextcloud Cookbook was updated to 0.21.1 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20240922 Nextcloud Talk was updated to 20.0.1 Nighthawk Wallet was updated to 2.2.15 Notepad was updated to 3.0.6 Notes (PFA) was updated to 2.0.1 ntodotxt was updated to 0.10.1 OCR was updated to 5.1 OPEN NGA was updated to v1.1.1 Pagan was updated to 1.5.3 PariDroid was updated to 2.15.5.2.4 Peristyle was updated to 2.03_beta Petals was updated to 3.29.0 Phonograph Plus was updated to 1.8.4 Pixiv for Muzei 3 was updated to 3.7.7 Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 6.7.2 Power Ampache 2 was updated to 1.00-67-fdroid Prayer Book was updated to 0.3.0 Quillpad was updated to 1.4.19 Recording Studio Lite was updated to 0.1.3 Ricochlime was updated to 1.11.3 Riichi Mahjong Calculator was updated to 1.0.11 Rush was updated to 2.2.0 Ruslin was updated to 0.1.2-beta.3 SCEE was updated to 59.0 SecondScreen was updated to 2.9.4 SexyTopo was updated to 1.8.3 Shattered Pixel Dungeon was updated to 2.5.2 Simple Time Tracker was updated to 1.46 SimpleX Chat was updated to 6.0.4 sing-box was updated to 1.9.6 SMS Import / Export was updated to 2.4.1 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 2.1 Standard Notes was updated to 3.195.1 Street­Complete was updated to 59.0 Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to 2.1.4 Table Habit was updated to 1.13.6 Taler Cashier was updated to 0.5.1 Taskbar was updated to 6.2.1 Thumb-Key was updated to 3.4.11 Traintime PDA was updated to 1.3.1 Transito was updated to 0.7.0.2 TriPeaks was updated to 1.2.3 TTL Changer was updated to 1.2.2 Tuta Mail was updated to 244.240912.0 Unciv was updated to 4.13.10 UnicodePad was updated to 2.14.3-fdroid Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.39.5 Valentin’s PowerTools #036 - 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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 so it can hide the Root better. ArcaneChat, ⚡ Fast encrypted chats for the family 🎉, is a newly added Delta Chat fork with a penchant for experimentation. We hope that all the good stuff might eventually get added to the official Delta Chat client too, eg. reproducible builds. FluffyChat was updated to 1.22.0, but that’s a week old news, as you are already enjoying your authenticated media. We also heard the voices of armv7 Element users and they can update today too, no need to feel left behind. Albeit there’s something to be said about running armv7-only devices in the current year. Ghost Commander was updated to 1.63.1b6, bringing slowly paced updates to that old-school dual-pane file navigator. The legend says that once you understand the dual-pane power, you can never go back! Notesnook - Private notes app was updated to 3.0.17, but did you know that since 3.0.15, published last week, you can use your own Sync Server? Just navigate to Customization > Servers and input the URL to your hosted one, as its source code is readily available. Before you start typing ssh ... do peruse this draft unofficial hosting guide and keep an eye on the server repo releases and discussions. Wire • Secure Messenger was updated to 4.8.4-20981-fdroid after a 2 year pause. It is now freshly designed, completely rebuilt app, with a lot of improvements and added features. Autumn Cleaning Last month we said: “Translations are the easiest way to help”, but we might have lied, for F-Droid itself, the easiest thing to do is to report a broken app. And you might do that unintended, with a glimmer of hope in your eyes, you find an app that you want to install, and when you run it… nothing happens, or you get a screen full of toggles to select yet still end up to a blank screen, or maybe it starts fine but then its functions don’t seem to work. Well, this often happens, as developers are humans themselves, they might get tired, bored or plain move away from the project. Android evolves, moves, changes. Sites that apps depend on change their APIs or get shutdown. It takes a village full of tools developers, app developers, F-Droid contributors and you the user, to shape an app to its current form. F-Droid Client itself is in constant change (hey, did you try the alpha releases yet?) as features are added, bugs get fixed and the app is polished with every new version. We’ve talked about Android forcing some changes upon developers and users alike, with both the good parts and the bad. The thing to remember is this: somebody needs to maintain an app else you’ll end up losing its functionality, sooner rather than later. In maintaining the F-Droid repo, we don’t only add new apps or fix app updates, we also have the dreary task of dealing with apps that are no longer fit for the repo. Maybe somebody reports 2 apps that might have issues, maybe adds 8 more that can’t connect to some crusty site. Then someone else tells you about some 19 apps where the developer deleted the source code repository and the mic drops when they prepare the changes for 284 apps to be archived because the source code is in read-only mode and development stopped. It’s an ongoing process… You wondered about the post title? Now it will make sense. So before you expand the section below, prepare your favorite beverage and read on. Why were all these apps removed? There were not actually removed, but archived. Why were all these apps archived? Because even if working, their source code is in stasis, in a frozen state. Why does this matter since we can still see it? We can see it, yet no one maintains it. If somebody finds a bug in the code they can’t report it at all since the issue tracker is also locked, let alone release a fixed version. What happens if I had one installed? Nothing happens, they continue to be installed. Whether they continue to work or not in the future is not something that F-Droid has any influence on. Why can’t I find the app when I search for it in Client/website if not removed? By archiving, apps are moved to the Archive section of the F-Droid repository. So I can’t install any of them? You sure do can, activate the Archive and do as you please. We recommend you to disable the Archive for normal usage. So it’s not a bad thing if nothing changed? It’s mostly a bad thing, in time. Apps might stop working just by updating your Android, or fail to install when you switch to your new device. If vulnerabilities are found in the app or its dependencies, you’ll run a vulnerable app, even worse if it connects to the Internet. But app X is an unique snowflake and needs to be available!!! Feel free to talk with us, maybe that one can come back. What if I fork the repo and continue its development? This is a good thing, two ideas to keep in mind, first, if the original developer agrees we might be able to update the original app (conditions might apply, reproducible builds might interfere etc), second, if they don’t agree you’ll have to create a real fork with new appid, new icon, new name, new everything, and we’ll add it as a new app. When reviewing the app list, contributors felt a bit of sadness, it’s not only about developers letting go, but also about all the time translators put into these apps, users testing and reporting bugs, and F-Droid contributors helping at inclusion or app updates. Do we have a Ringdroid replacement now? No. Was Stringlate useful? Yes, we fondly remember using it for many translations, yet a translation portal is way better today. What’s next? Read the list, crosscheck your devices, take a note of any apps that got archived and try to find replacements as soon as possible. Note to developers: When you cease development, do ping us and talk with us about the situation, so that we can better manage the decision on whether the app should be archived immediately or not. Archived Apps 316 apps were archived (expand for the full list) /r/Android App store: Download apps curated by /r/android Activity Launcher fork: Create shortcuts for any installed app and even hidden to launch them with ease ADB Manager: Manage Android Debug Bridge AirUnlock: Controlling Mac lock state Alarmio: Simple alarm clock focused on design, readability, and Internet radio Alovoa Lite: Open-source online dating application ALSA Mixer WebUI: Client for ALSA Mixer WebUI Always On AMOLED: Display some information at all times Amdroid: Amdroid is a client for the Ampache media streaming system AMPlayer: Network music player Android OBD-II Reader: Car diagnostics Android Samba Client: Access files shared through a SAMBA share Android version: Simple app to view Android version information AndTTT: simple tic tac toe game Anime Release Notifier: Track anime release dates Another-RSS: reader for multiple RSS feeds in a single, searchable list AnySoftKeyboard: Czech: Language pack for AnySoftKeyboard AnySoftKeyboard: Finnish: Language pack for AnySoftKeyboard AnySoftKeyboard: Galician: Language pack for AnySoftKeyboard AnySoftKeyboard: Icelandic: Language pack for AnySoftKeyboard AnySoftKeyboard: Macedonian: Language pack for AnySoftKeyboard AnySoftKeyboard: Pali: Language pack for AnySoftKeyboard AnySoftKeyboard: Polish: Language pack for AnySoftKeyboard AnySoftKeyboard: Portuguese: Language pack for AnySoftKeyboard AnySoftKeyboard: Slovene: Language pack for AnySoftKeyboard AnySoftKeyboard: Swedish: Language pack for AnySoftKeyboard AnySoftKeyboard: Tatar: Language pack for AnySoftKeyboard AnySoftKeyboard: Ukrainian: Language pack for AnySoftKeyboard Aodify: Show AOD on demand APKMirror: An unofficial client for the gratis app download site APKMirror ApkTrack: Check for updates on PlayStore and other sources Apollo Trivia: Learn more about the Apollo Moon missions AppLock: Deny access to set apps by pattern locks, prevent abuse, protect your privacy ArkTap: Arknights helper app Atomic: IRC (chat) client Attestation de déplacement: Generates the PDF attestation file required by the French government to go out Audinaut: Stream music from Subsonic-compatible servers Auto Airplane Mode: Schedule airplane mode based on your settings Barinsta: Simple yet advanced Instagram client Battery Level: See the battery level Battery Live: Set the wallpaper based on the battery level Berlin-Vegan: Guide for vegan dining and shopping in Berlin BipolAlarm: Alarm clock with 2 stages Birthday Countdown: An App counting down to your next birthday! BitShares Wallet: Use Smartcoins like bitBTC, bitUSD & bitEUR in 22 languages w/QR codes & more Blazed Cloud - Encrypted Storage: Minimal & Open sourced Cloud Storage BLE Peripheral Simulator: Try out Web Bluetooth without the need for a BLE Peripheral Device Blockly for senseBox: Visual Programming of the senseBox:MCU via Blockly Bluetooth terminal: Simple bluetooth terminal application. ASCII and hex. Opensource BoogDroid: Bugzilla client BookmarkOS: A wrapper for bookmarkOS Bop-MusicPlayer: Lightweight and powerful music player Bucket - Overlay Manager: Bucket is UNOFFICIAL app for Substratum Theme Engine Budget: Manage your income and expenses Bulkshare 2: Share multiple URLs Burning-Series: Watch numerous series online for free on Burning Series! Cache Cleaner: Clean the cache Calculate!: Set one-click emergency options Calendar Notifications: Advanced calendar notifications CalorieScope : An app to help you to maintain healthy life Camera Roll: Fast and intuitive Gallery replacement with cropping, EXIF editor, file manager Canada Weather & Radar: Quick, easy, and free Canadian forecast, animated radar, and home screen widget Catapult: Launcher based on Cyanogen’s Trebuchet Charmap: Access unicode characters Check Network: Auto connect to network Citybike Stations Vienna: Show available citybikes in Vienna Clip Stack: Manage clipboard history Clover: Imageboard browser Coin Flip: Simulate a coin flip Coin Flip Addon: Extra coins CollinsDictionary: A third-party client for Collins Dictionary ControlDLNA: DLNA/UPnP control point Custom Search: A Simple Query Search on Google using Dorking Cythara: Musical instrument tuner D00R: Unlock the door at Hackspace Siegen DashClock: Civilization V Quotes: Random quotes on lock screen DashNotifier: Notifications on lock screen Dawn for Reddit: Unofficial client for Reddit DefCol: Palette and color manager Device Locator: DieDroid: Dice roller Dir: Modern file manager Domodroid: Interface with a Domogik home automation server Droid Examiner: Device info DroidBeard: Manage SickBeard installations DualSim Reminder: Tools for dual SIM devices from Samsung ElegiLegi: Open government game for Argentina Elementary: Periodic Table: Open-source Periodic Table of the Elements and element reference app Ensichat: Decentralized Instant Messenger Entrust IdentityGuard Unblocker: Xposed module to let rooted devices use Entrust’s IdentityGuard app EPUB3 Reader: eBook reader with parallel texts Ermete SMS: Send SMS via the web Falling Blocks: Tetris clone fb-client: Paste and view code snippets FHCode: Code editor for android Files: File Manager with root browser FineGeotag: Automatically geotag photos Fira Font: Mozilla Fira font for the CyanogenMod Theme Engine Flashlight: Use your device’s LED as flashlight Flashlight Widget: Control your LED flash Flat Connectivity Icons: Xposed module that provides flat connectivity icons Flavordex Tasting Journal: Highly customizable tasting journal for phones or tablets flutterhole: A third party application for the Pi-Hole® dashboard Flym: Light and modern feed reader Flyve MDM Agent: Manage and secure effectively your mobile devices and applications Food-E: An app to get information about artificial additives found in Processed foods FOSS Moodle: Interact with HHS moodle instance FOSS Weather: Get weather information from several webservices FragDenStaat: Navigate FragDenStaat Free Mobile Netstat: Monitor your Free Mobile plan Frost for Facebook: A fast and extensive third party wrapper for Facebook Fun Phone Puppet: Use your phone as puppet Fun With Kanji: Simple app to learn Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji FutharkBoard: Elder Futhark keyboard for Android Gears: Gears demo/benchmark Get Off Your Phone: Control procrastination with an app locker GfxTablet: Use touchscreen as graphics tablet Git Quick Reference: Offline git quick reference application Gloomy Dungeons: First-person shooter Gloomy Dungeons 3D - Hardcore: First-person shooter Go to Sleep: Reminds you to go to sleep… until you do GoldenEye: Layer 7 HTTP DoS Test Tool Greyscale: A simple AOSP-like theme for CyanogenMod HaveRadiosion: Internet radio player with comic figure as music visualizer Hearing Saver: Set default volume for headsets Heb12 Bible: make reading God’s word easy and hassle-free Hibi 「日々」: An app to help you learn Japanese by keeping a journal HoloPlay: HoloPlay is a audio only alternative Youtube client using Invidious API Hop’Edia: Helps you to choose a good beer HostIsDown: Check if a host is down Hosts Editor: Edit system hosts file HydroMemo: Drink enough water Identify Dog Breeds: Identify dog breeds with your smartphone Image SMS: Send very small photos with long text SMS and without MMS or internet InitialVolume: Set an initial volume after boot Just A Damn Compass: It’s just a small simple compass, with no unneeded features Just Search: Simple Assist app with multiple search providers K-9 Mail DashClock Extension: Email info on the lockscreen Kaku: Practice kanji writing on your phone’s keyboard! Keikai Launcher: A fast, minimalistic and lightweight search-based launcher Kernel Profiler: The easiest way to tweaks your kernel KindMind: Be aware of sad feelings and unmet needs LaiCare: Manage the care of dogs and cats LaMetric Notify+: Send notifications to a LaMetric Time smart clock LDAP Sync: Sync your contacts with LDAP LDAP Sync: Sync your contacts with LDAP Libre Droid: Client for Libre.fm LibreNews: Free, fast and decentralized breaking news notification app LibreTrivia: An open source trivia game for Android Light Android Launcher: Linkbox: Simple Link Manager Linwood Dev-Doctor: A free, opensource, serverless learning platform. A linwood project Location Cache Map: Find where your device was Locus: Share your location end-to-end encrypted on decentralized servers using Nostr LTE Cleaner: System cleaner MarkdownView Demo: Render markdown text Matsuri: Proxy toolchain for Android Mercury-SSH: Send preconfigured commands via SSH Mi Manga Nu: Manga reader Ministocks: Stock price widget Ministro: Needed by apps written in Qt Mint Task: Simple todo manager. Mirakel: Decentralized TODO list Mirakel-Dashclock: Dashclock extension for Mirakel Monochromatic: Enable the built-in black and white mode Move Certs!: Resolve certificates warnings Movian Remote: Control a Showtime media center Moving Polygons: Bouncing lines live wallpaper MRepo: A modules manager for Magisk & KernelSU Multitouch Test: Test multitouch capabilities Munch: Manage and view RSS feeds Mysplash: An Unsplash Client Netcfg Widget: A widget frontend for netcfg NetInfo Widget: Widget for network connectivity NewPipe Legacy: Lightweight YouTube frontend for OS versions 4.x Nextcloud Cookbook: Nextcloud Cookbook Mobile Client written in Flutter Night Mode: Enable Night Mode from tile Night Screen: Prevent your eyes from being hurt by screen light NoSurf for reddit: Browse the top posts on Reddit without infinite scrolling or addictive features Notify2Jabber: Send almost all text notifications to a Jabber account or your Gotify server Null launcher: A launcher that does nothing NuSimi: Nusimi is your dictionary of native american languages OCReader: Reader for Nextcloud news Offline Calendar: Lets you add calendars to the Calendar app, which are not synchronized OMW: A game engine compatible with TES3:Morrowind data files OMW Nightly: A game engine compatible with TES3:Morrowind data files OneTimePass: Two-factor (TOTP) authentication Open Bitcoin Wallet: Bitcoin wallet with Lightning and Hosted Channels support OpenManga: Read your favorit manga OpenUntis: An alternative FLOSS client for the Untis timetable system OpenVegeMap: Find vegetarian and vegan restaurants in your city OpenWort: Simple offline thesaurus for the German language OS Monitor: Monitor the Operating System OsmGpxUploader: Upload GPX files to OpenStreetMap OverFlow: Send SMS in bulk Overload: Overload is designed to facilitate time tracking for everyone PalmCalc 2019+: Retro scientific calculator & converters Papanikolis Submarine: Multiplayer 2-D game Paperless: Access all your scanned documents, wherever you are Passera: Generate strong passwords Periodic Table: Periodic table of the elements Pixel Filter: Screen dimmer, which disables individual pixels, for AMOLED screens Pixiv Func: Full-featured third party client for Pixiv, working without proxy Plumble: Voice chat for Mumble servers Pods Companion For AirPods: View the battery status of your headphones. Free, no ads and open source Prepay Credit: Info for Irish cell network Presentation: Gallery of infographics PulseAudio Rtp Receiver: Audio Player for PulseAudio’s RTP Stream Punchline Bingo: A configurable bingo grid Quacker: A private and clean way to browse Twitter/X Quillnote: Take beautiful markdown notes and stay organized with task lists Quran For My Android: Shows Quran text or word by word translation RasPi Check: Check the status of your RasPi Record You: Privacy focused voice and screen recorder app build with MD3 Recover VOIP settings from H300s: Retrieve VOIP Settings from Sercomm H300s as shipped from Vodafone Greece Recurrence: Get reminded about notifications Red: Redirect outgoing calls to Signal/Telegram/Threema RedPanal: Client for RedPanal Reminders: UNICAMP canteen information ReoTwé Twitter Client: minimalistic microblogging client for twitter Retro Breaker: Simple brick breaker game Retro Text Editor: Edit text files Rick App: play automatic burp in silent situations Ringdroid: Ringtone editor RtkGps: RTKLIB rtknavi port SafeSlinger Exchange for Security Developers: Developer demo for public key exchanges Sage: Calculation client SaidIt: Client for saidit.net SandwichRoulette: Random selection of ingredients Sanity: Phone Assistant Save to Nextcloud Bookmarks: Save bookmarks on a NextCloud server Screen Notifications: Notification helper Screens: Multi Window Manager Screenshot Assistant: An assistant app for creating, cropping and sharing screenshots Script Manager: An application to manage shell scripts! SealNote: Simple, safe and easy to use notepad Sentien Launcher: Quick. Smart. Minimalist. Designed with your digital well-being in mind sg for SteamGifts: SteamGifts client ShowsRage: Manage your SickRage installation SidePanel: Side panel app launcher Silverfish: A launcher with focus on a simple UI Simple Brick Games: Imitates handhelds from the past Simple C25K: Fitness trainer Simple MP (Simple Music Player): A simple music player based on material you design Simple Scrobbler: Last.fm/Libre.fm Scrobbler SimpleProtocolPlayer NG: Audio player for uncompressed PCM streams Simpletask: Todo list manager Simpletask (WebDAV): A todo manager based on todo.txt Simpletask Nextcloud: A todo manager based on todo.txt Simply Solid: Set solid colors as background SINE Isochronic Entrainer: Brainwave Entrainment from relaxation to focus enhancement by Isochronic Tones Single-Feed: reader for one feed and Vibora.de Blog SIP Caller: Dial SIP numbers SIP Switch: Access Internet call settings Slide: Companion app for reddit Smart Edge: Android alternative for Dynamic Island Smart Flasher: A simple tool to make flashing recovery zips much easier! SMS Ping: Send silent SMS SMS Popup: Display SMS directly SMS Spammer: Sends multiple SMS Spark 360: Gaming client spaRSS: Feed reader Splitfit: Save workout routines and track your progress Status: An overlay-based statusbar replacement Storage & USB: Launch storage settings directly from the apps drawer Stringlate: Help translating FOSS applications Strobe Light: A simple strobe light application SuperImage: Sharpen your low-resolution pictures with the power of AI upscaling Sutrans Plus: Bus schedules for Serbian SuTrans Syncthing Lite: File synchronization Synergy: Share your screen with multiple devices Tea Timer: Simple Tea Timer Tehro: Tehran Metro: Tehran Metro Guide Ⓜ️ Teleposter: Write blogposts on telegra.ph Terminal Emulator for Android: Access Android’s built-in Linux command line shell. Unleash your inner geek! Text Edit: A text editor Timetable: Simple but smart timetable app Tiny Tiny Feed: Widget client for TTRSS ToneDef: Tone dialer with DTMF, bluebox and redbox tones Torch: Flashlight Trivia You: Trivia App for Android built with Material You TTL Manager: TTL Manager for rooted Android devices TubeAcad: TubeAcad est une application Peertube pour les instances académiques TubeLab: App for all Peertube instances twitlatte - SNS client for Twitter and Mastodon: Twitter, Mastodon and Pleroma client UART Smartwatch: Bluetooth App for a UART-Smartwatch Unalix: Simple tool that removes link tracking and optionally resolves shortened links Velocity Calculator: Calculate the speed of an object in a video Vibe You: Music app supporting playback via local storage and Piped Vigilante: Know when a third-party app uses your device camera/microphone Volta: Actions on volume buttons Weather: Small Weather App with data from OpenWeatherMap.org Weather notification: Displays the air temperature and weather conditions in the notification bar Weather Skin: Bigger Text: The skin for Weather Notification Weather Skin: Black: The skin for Weather Notification Weather Skin: Black Text Plus: The skin for Weather Notification Weather Skin: White: The skin for Weather Notification Weather Skin: White Text Plus: The skin for Weather Notification WeeklyBudget: A minimalistic weekly budgeting app. WhatsApp Twitch Stickers: Twitch emotes as WhatsApp stickers WiFi Warning: Notify when Wi-Fi is enabled and disconnected WiFiKeyShare: Share Wi-Fi passwords with QR codes and NFC tags Wikimedia Commons for Muzei: Muzei plugin that displays the Wikimedia Commons picture of the day Wiktionary: Wiktionary client WordBook: Your Personal Dictionary: A personal dictionary app for linguists... Wulkanowy: Client for the Polish school register VULCAN UONET+ WyFy: Wi-Fi change state adapter Xposed Installer: Installer of Xposed framework YaShlang: Online PeerTube and YouTube player with local playlists and recommendations Yggdrasil: The application for connecting to Yggdrasil network on Android YubiClip: Copy YubiKey NEO OTP from NFC to clipboard YubiTOTP: Generate OATH codes with YubiKey NEO over NFC ZANavi: Car Navigation System Газета VEGETARIAN: Все доступные выпуски газеты “VEGETARIAN” Simple todo list: تودویر 清心天气: Get weather forecasts (CN) Newly Added Apps 20 more apps were newly added ActivityWatch: Track how you spend your time on your devices Calculator You: Math & Units: A beautiful calculator for solving simple tasks Chance: Create custom dice - give meaning to chance DevQS: Quick Settings tiles for developers DigiAgriApp: Software aimed at farmers and anyone with cultivated land E6B Flight Computer: A simulation of the E6B Flight Computer in your hand EnforceDoze: Enable Doze mode immediately after screen off and turn off motion sensing Grit: A ToDo List and Habit Tracker app that helps you visualise your progress HabsGleich: A mini diary with a mind test included Materialious: Modern material design for Invidious NeatLauncher: A neat and convenient launcher without icons Ruam Mij: Suspicious app scanner with privacy respects Tranquil Stopwatch: Stopwatch with current time display for long, non-interactive sessions Twili Recipes: Recipe manager and cooking assistant app with ChatGTP and Next Cloud integration Valentin’s PowerTools #012 - Rate Your Pics: Rate your pictures very quickly Valentin’s PowerTools #036 - Ease The Waiting: A mix between a calendar and a clock that makes you wait faster Vape Tools: Coil and e-liquid tools WhatSave: An application that helps you save WA statuses Write On: Simple Notepad: A clean, intuitive note-taking open source app - Safe and Secure 🍓🍓🍓: Strawberry is strawberry, strawberry 🍓🍓🍓 Updated Apps 229 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) 1List - Simple Lists for TODO, Shopping, Movies... was updated to 1.5.2 Aegis Authenticator was updated to 3.2 AG Store was updated to 0.2.2a Al-Azan - Prayer Times was updated to 1.17.10 Alibi was updated to 0.5.3 Amber was updated to 2.0.1 Amethyst was updated to 0.91.0 AndBible: Bible Study was updated to 5.0.831 APM was updated to 2.18.1 Apollo was updated to 1.5.14 AppListBackup was updated to 1.0.3 Asteroid’s Revenge was updated to 0.11.3 Audile was updated to 1.5.4 AusweisApp was updated to 2.2.1 Aves Libre was updated to 1.11.11 baresip was updated to 60.4.2 baresip+ was updated to 47.5.2 BetterCounter was updated to 4.9.3 BILIBILIAS was updated to 2.0.44 Bimba was updated to 3.6.1 Blitz: Fischer Chess Clock was updated to 2.0.2 Blocker was updated to 2.0.4803-fdroid Blood pressure monitor was updated to 1.8.0 Bluetooth Remote was updated to 1.3.2 Box, Box! was updated to 0.8.1 Boxcars was updated to 1.4.0 Breezy Weather was updated to 5.2.8_freenet Broccoli: The Green Recipe App was updated to 1.2.12 Brume Wallet was updated to 0.6.525 BVD was updated to 2.1.4.foss Cache Cleaner was updated to 2.2.2 Calendar Import-Export was updated to 2.8.0 Capy Reader was updated to 2024.09.1049 Carrion was updated to 1.22 Cartes IGN was updated to 3.1.12 Chip Defense was updated to 1.41 ChordReader 2 was updated to 2.3.1 Cirrus was updated to 3.0 Citrine was updated to 0.4.4 Ciyue was updated to 0.8.2 Clash Meta For Android was updated to 2.11.0.Meta Compass was updated to 1.14.4 croc was updated to 1.11.2 Cuscon was updated to 4.0.3.4 DailyAL was updated to 2024.8.3 Datenspuren 2024 was updated to 1.66.0-Datenspuren-Edition De-Bloater was updated to v0.27 Delta Chat was updated to 1.46.14 Doors of Doom was updated to 0.0.6 Drinkable was updated to 1.54.0 droidVNC-NG was updated to 2.7.2 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.211.0 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup was updated to 0.32.0 Easy Launcher - Minimal launcher was updated to 0.2.4 EBT New Note was updated to 0.78.0 EinkBro was updated to 11.16.0 Energize was updated to 0.10.0 Ente Photos was updated to 0.9.35 Escapepod - Podcast Player was updated to 1.5.2 F-Droid Build Status was updated to 5.6.3 FairEmail was updated to 1.2232 File Navigator was updated to 0.2.1 Find My Device (FMD) was updated to 0.7.0 floccus bookmark sync was updated to 5.2.7 Forkgram was updated to 11.1.3.0 Forkyz was updated to 56 freeDictionaryApp was updated to 1.7.1 Fridgey was updated to 2.0 Fucks Given was updated to 1.0.2 Gauguin was updated to 0.30.3 GNU Taler Point-of-Sale was updated to 0.2.7 Gramophone was updated to 1.0.11 gttrpg was updated to 1.1.1 Hacki for Hacker News was updated to 2.9.1 Hail was updated to 1.9.0 Harmony Music was updated to 1.10.0 Helio was updated to 3.14 huggingAssist was updated to 2.2 Ichaival was updated to 1.9.1 Image Toolbox was updated to 3.0.0 Indic Keyboard was updated to 3.6.0 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.0.7 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.4.8 InnerTune was updated to 0.5.10 Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated to Build100.6.6 InviZible Pro: increase your security, protect you was updated to 6.8.0 Invoice Ninja was updated to 5.0.168 Ion Launcher was updated to y24-v12 Jami was updated to 20240909-01 Jass board was updated to 4.1.5 Jellyfin for Android TV was updated to 0.17.5 Jerboa for Lemmy was updated to 0.0.75 Joplin was updated to 3.1.3 Kanji Dojo was updated to 2.1.1 kardi notes | privacy matters was updated to 2.1.2 KDE Connect was updated to 1.32.2 Kepler-App was updated to 2.6.0 Key Mapper was updated to 2.6.2 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 1.0.0-alpha.7 Klick’r - Smart AutoClicker was updated to 3.0.3 Kotatsu was updated to 7.5.2 Kvaesitso was updated to 1.33.1-fdroid Ladefuchs was updated to 3.0.0 LibChecker was updated to 2.5.0 Library App VideLibri was updated to 2.920 LibreOffice Viewer was updated to 24.2.6.2 LibreTorrent was updated to 3.5.2 LibreTrack was updated to 1.6.1 Linkora was updated to 0.7.2 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.2.0-rc.0 Lyrion was updated to 0.8.1 M3U was updated to 1.14.0-rc03 Material Notes was updated to 1.6.0 Mattermost Beta was updated to 2.19.2 MediLog was updated to 3.0.4 MedTimer was updated to 1.9.5 mensen was updated to 1.2.5 Menu Generator was updated to 1.1.2 Mercurygram was updated to 10.14.5.1 Meshenger was updated to 4.3.7 meteroid was updated to 2.15.1 Mill was updated to 4.17.6 Money Manager Ex was updated to 2024.09.11 MonsterMusic was updated to 0.1.31 mpv-android was updated to 2024-09-15-release mpvKt: MPV based media player was updated to 0.1.6 MTG Familiar was updated to 3.9.10 Mullvad VPN: privacy is a universal right was updated to 2024.4 Muzei was updated to 3.6.2 My Brain was updated to 2.0.1 My Expenses was updated to 3.8.7.2 Myne: Download & Read eBooks was updated to 4.1.0 NanoLedger was updated to 0.4.6 neutriNote CE was updated to 4.5.3e Nextcloud was updated to 3.30.0 Nextcloud Cookbook was updated to 0.21.0 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20240916 Nextcloud Passwords was updated to 1.0.10 Nextcloud Talk was updated to 20.0.0 NextDNS Manager was updated to 5.3.0 NoNonsense Notes was updated to 7.1.9 Notepad was updated to 3.0.5 Notes (PFA) was updated to 2.0.0 Obtainium was updated to 1.1.21 OCR was updated to 5.0 OGN AR Viewer was updated to 1.0.3 Oinkoin was updated to 1.0.68 Olauncher was updated to v4.3.3 Onyx was updated to 2.0.9 OONI Probe was updated to 3.9.0 Open Link With... was updated to 2.10-floss Open Video Editor was updated to 1.1.3 OpenContacts was updated to 30.0 OpenStop was updated to 0.8.2 OpenTracks was updated to v4.13.1 Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline was updated to 2024.09.08-7-FDroid Orgro was updated to 1.40.4 Pachli for Mastodon was updated to 2.8.1 Pagan was updated to 1.5.0 Paperize - A Wallpaper Changer was updated to 2.1.0 PCAPdroid was updated to 1.7.3 Peristyle was updated to 2.01_alpha Pie Launcher was updated to 1.20.0 PipePipe was updated to 3.8.1 Pixel Wheels was updated to 0.26.0 Pixiv for Muzei 3 was updated to 3.7.6 Plant-it was updated to 0.8.0 Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 6.6.6 Presence Publisher was updated to 2.6.3 Qadaa was updated to 1.6.0 qBitController was updated to 1.0.0 QR Scanner (PFA) was updated to 4.6.6 QuickDic was updated to 5.7.4 Quote Unquote was updated to 4.44.0-fdroid RadarWeather was updated to 6.5 Rank-My-Favs was updated to 0.5.0 Readrops was updated to 2.0 Recording Studio Lite was updated to 0.1.2 Ricochlime was updated to 1.11.2 RiMusic was updated to 0.6.52 Rush was updated to 2.1.0 Saber was updated to 0.24.6 Satunes was updated to 2.3.0 Save Locally: Share2Storage was updated to 1.3.2 ScreenStream was updated to 4.1.12 SD Maid 2/SE - System Cleaner was updated to 1.2.6-rc0 Share To InputStick was updated to 3.6.1 Shattered Pixel Dungeon was updated to 2.5.0 Simple Crypto Widget was updated to 8.5.9 Simple Keyboard was updated to 5.20 SiYuan was updated to 3.1.6 SnapSaver was updated to 0.3.0 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 2.0 Spotube was updated to 3.8.1 Standard Notes was updated to 3.195.1 Street­Complete was updated to 59.0-beta1 Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to 2.1.3 Taler Cashier was updated to 0.4 Taler Wallet was updated to 0.13.2 TermuC was updated to 0.1.3 The One App was updated to 1.3.1 Thumb-Key was updated to 3.4.9 Tilde Friends was updated to 0.0.22 Timer +X was updated to 1.4.2 Tiny Weather Forecast Germany was updated to 0.62.5 Traditional T9 was updated to 38.0 Traintime PDA was updated to 1.3.0 TRIfA was updated to 1.0.235 Trime was updated to 3.3.0 TriPeaks was updated to 1.2.1 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.15.1 TTRSS-Reader was updated to 1.97.5 Tusky was updated to 26.2 Tuta Mail was updated to 244.240903.0 Unchained was updated to 1.3.2 Unciv was updated to 4.13.8-patch1 UnicodePad was updated to 2.14.2-fdroid uNote | microNote was updated to 1.7.4 URLCheck was updated to 2.17 Valentin’s PowerTools #016 - Tomato Potato Clock was updated to 1.0.1 Vespucci was updated to 20.1.3.0 Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.17.1 Windscribe was updated to 3.79 Xray was updated to 7.6.3 Xtra was updated to 2.34.4 YAM Launcher was updated to 1.4 Your local weather was updated to 6.0.3 Zapp was updated to 8.5.3 µLauncher was updated to j-0.0.10 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF, special thanks to the brave ones among you that expanded the full lists 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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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 need the Demo data files just to test, or use the game files from your old CDs or fresh off a digital game service. You can follow the instructions in the Wiki to setup the game. Blocker was updated to 2.0.4497-fdroid, small note, be aware that the included rules might be missing. The next update will fix them. Upstream issue Briar was updated to 1.5.13, a small polish after last months UI update to Material Design 3. Briar is a peer-to-peer messaging app that does not depend on centralized servers, and it routes messages via the Tor network. This can be a pain for mobile devices as they can go online and offline as the geography dictates (or your OEMs battery optimizations) hence messages can be delayed. But did you know you can pair Briar with Briar Mailbox? Announced last year and in F-Droid since April, Mailbox acts as your own private server that you can setup on a spare Android device that sits comfortable always online and keeps your messages ready to be delivered to you or to your contacts. Linking your account to Mailbox is as easy as scanning a QR code. Element - Secure Messenger was updated to 1.6.20, as the Element team gave F-Droid the ok to build one month later than their release. It’s an important update as it adds support for “Authenticated media”, about which you can read more here. Unfortunately the armv7 version hit some memory limits so it will be rebuilt next. SchildiChat users are already covered as their app was updated a few weeks ago and FluffyChat users might get the update by the time they read this TWIF. Element X is still work-in-progress, as newer versions fail to build reproducible, we are communicating with the Element team to bring it up to date as soon as possible. mpvKt: MPV based media player, A media player based on the popular commandline media player mpv, was just added, it’s based on mpv-android and tries to offer you the power of mpv in a nicer UI that’s easier to use and handle. Will it replace your old player? Do test and tell us! Chaldea was updated to 2.5.14 and kardi notes | privacy matters to 2.1.1, but we’ll have to ask you to skip these updates as they are broken, being the victims of an aggressive scanning issue. What scanner issue? Last week we added a new check to the scanner which was intended to catch non-deterministic builds. When a package manager file, e.g. pubspec.yaml, is found without a lock file aside, the scanner throws an error or deletes the file, when scandelete is used. This feature was not tested on enough app source code bases and, when deployed for hundreds of apps a cycle needs to build, it caused, besides delayed updates, many false positives and even made some builds (as pointed above) produce broken packages. We appologize for the mess. This issue has been fixed and failed packages have been rebuilt. Removed Apps 1 app were removed Video Transcoder, Video transcoding between common formats, was getting long in the tooth, no longer being developed and based on a 6 year old FFmpeg version that has its share of known vulnerabilities. But it’s not all bad news as at least Bunny Media Editor and Open Video Editor can cover your video editing tasks and, if needed, FFShare will let you tweak that final encoding. Newly Added Apps 8 more apps were newly added Cavity: Wine cellar manager for Android Fucks Given: Self-love is the greatest middle finger of all time (No, the screen is not cursing at you, have a read and a laugh 😏) Journalize: A fast to use journaling app Linkora: the only link utility app you need for Android OGN AR Viewer: Experimental augmented reality client to the Open Glider Network (OGN) Recording Studio Lite: Audio recorder Riichi Mahjong Calculator: Riichi Mahjong Calculator, featuring hand efficiency calculation, and more Valentin’s PowerTools #016 - Tomato Potato Clock: Distraction-free pomodoro timer Updated Apps 82 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) AAAAXY was updated to 1.5.190+20240826.3509.227d4212 Amber was updated to 1.3.6 Amethyst was updated to 0.90.4 Asteroid’s Revenge was updated to 0.11.1 Auxio was updated to 3.5.3 Barcode Buddy was updated to 0.4.1 bilimiao was updated to 2.3.9 BitBanana was updated to 0.8.6 Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 10.16 Bitcoin Wallet [testnet3] was updated to 10.16 Capy Reader was updated to 2024.09.1039-dev Cheogram was updated to 2.15.3-4+free ClashMetaForAndroid was updated to 2.10.3.Meta Click Switch was updated to 8.7.6 Compass was updated to 1.14.3 Dagger: Dota 2 Stats was updated to 1.3.8 Delta Icon Pack was updated to 1.9.5 Dokuwiki Android was updated to v0.41 eduVPN was updated to 3.3.2 EinkBro was updated to 11.15.0 FairEmail was updated to 1.2227 FREE Browser was updated to 3.0 freeDictionaryApp was updated to 1.7.0 Fridgey was updated to 1.10 Gallery was updated to 3.0.0 Gallery for PhotoPrism was updated to 1.30.0 GNU Taler Point-of-Sale was updated to 0.2.6 Gramophone was updated to 1.0.9 Green: Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 4.0.33 HK Transport was updated to 1.0.6 InnerTune was updated to 0.5.9 Kanji Dojo was updated to 2.1.0 Lab+ for Gitlab was updated to 1.5.0 Lightning Address to Invoice was updated to 1.4.0 Linux Command Library was updated to 3.2.6 Lyrion was updated to 0.8.0 MediLog was updated to 3.0.0 Meshtastic was updated to 2.4.4 MIFARE Classic Tool was updated to 4.2.3 MoeMemos was updated to 0.8.2 monocles chat was updated to 1.7.11 MonsterMusic was updated to 0.1.27 MuPDF mini was updated to 1.24.9a MuPDF viewer was updated to 1.24.9a NanoLedger was updated to 0.4.5 NetGuard was updated to 2.330 neutriNote CE was updated to 4.5.3d NewsBlur was updated to 13.3.0 Next Player was updated to 0.12.3 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20240831 NOVA Video Player was updated to 6.2.95 Offi was updated to 13.0.3 Oinkoin was updated to 1.0.67 Open Surge: retro game engine was updated to 6.1.2.1-fdroid openHAB was updated to 3.16.2 Pachli for Mastodon was updated to 2.8.0 Peristyle was updated to 1.53_beta Permission Manager X was updated to v1.27-fd PixelDroid was updated to 1.0.beta36 PocketTRacker was updated to 2.1.0 Presence Publisher was updated to 2.6.1 Quick Calculation was updated to 1.3 Quote Unquote was updated to 4.43.1-fdroid Readrops was updated to 2.0-beta02 Satunes was updated to 2.2.1 Sayboard was updated to v4.2.1 SiYuan was updated to 3.1.4 Smart EggTimer was updated to 3.0 Taler Wallet was updated to 0.13.0 Thumb-Key was updated to 3.4.5 Tinc Mesh VPN was updated to 0.40 Traccar Client was updated to 7.7 Trackbook - Movement Recorder was updated to 2.2.3 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.14.1 Unchained was updated to 1.3.1 Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.39.4 UP-Example was updated to 1.5.5 Varengold activeTAN was updated to 1.0.13 Wikipedia was updated to r/2.7.50498-r-2024-08-19 Xtra was updated to 2.34.0 YAM Launcher was updated to 1.2 µLauncher was updated to j-0.0.9 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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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 week 30 TWIF explained, newer Client versions introduced the “Other” anti-feature setting as an umbrella to cover whatever the future would bring. Unfortunately, updating the client would just add the new setting turned off by default, so apps flagged with such an anti-feature, eg. TetheredNet would not be shown in searches. A small banner on top of the results list mentions the hidden apps, but users might easily miss it. If your client was upgraded from an older version this year, you can just open the Settings page, find “Include anti-feature apps” entry and check “Other Anti-features”. But from now on, when you install F-Droid for the first time, from the blue button, this setting is already as it should be. More work is ongoing to polish the small banner, fix settings on client upgrades and integrate “TetheredNet” as a standalone anti-feature. Community News Hacktoberfest 2024, A month-long celebration of all things open-source, will be upon us soon. Former F-Droid contributors have setup a site to keep track of Android apps, around the community, that will join in. If you want to lend a hand to your favorite app, do bookmark the Droidtoberfest website and remember to get ready to contribute. BobBall was updated to 1.17 after an 8 year hiatus. For Android 2.3.3 users there’s only bad news, no, it’s not about your Android being 13 years too old, it’s worse, the new BobBall works only on 4.0 and later. 😅 LibreTube was updated to 0.25.1 and now supports “local streams extraction” similar to NewPipe, as it contains a workaround for recent AntiBot protection changes by YouTube. The upstream issue contains more user experiences and info. RHVoice - a free and open source speech synthesize was updated to 1.16.3 after 8 months of no updates as F-Droid contributors need to manually track when releases are ready. Updates are pretty important as the other well known TTS app, eSpeak, is already 2 years old and can’t even be installed on newer arm64-only or Android 14+ devices. RHVoice does not cover the same range of locales but provides some voice output to use. Removed Apps 2 apps were removed LibreOffice 2022 Schedule and PyConZA 2021, program apps for older conferences Newly Added Apps 5 apps were newly added Citrine: Nostr relay for Android Code Rain Wallpaper: A live wallpaper inspired by the matrix falling code effect Image Meta Cleaner: a cross-platform application designed to Show and Remove metadata from images Ion Launcher: A beautiful, functional and customizable launcher Mensinator: Tailored Period Tracking, Total Privacy—Your Period, Your Control Updated Apps 94 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) AAAAXY was updated to 1.5.183+20240821.3502.3941a3b5 addy.io (formerly AnonAddy) was updated to v5.3.1 Alovoa was updated to 1.12.0 Amber was updated to 1.3.2 Aria for Misskey was updated to 0.14.4 AVNC was updated to 2.6.1 BLE Radar was updated to 0.26.5-beta Book’s Story was updated to 1.2.0 Brainf was updated to 20240826 Cache Cleaner was updated to 2.2.0 Capy Reader was updated to 2024.08.1037 Cartes IGN was updated to 3.1.7 Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated to 14.2 Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet was updated to 2.31.1 Chaldea was updated to 2.5.13 Ciyue was updated to 0.5.0 Copy SMS Code - OTP Helper was updated to 1.16.4 Deku SMS was updated to 0.48.0 Delta Chat was updated to 1.46.13 Discreet Launcher was updated to v7.6.0 Drinkable was updated to 1.52.0 Easy Launcher - Minimal launcher was updated to 0.2.3 Ente Auth was updated to 3.1.3 Ente Photos was updated to 0.9.27 Everyday Tasks was updated to 1.7.3 Evil Insult Generator was updated to 4.3 EweSticker was updated to 20240825 FairEmail was updated to 1.2225 Flux News was updated to 1.6.2 FreedomBox was updated to 0.7 Fridgey was updated to 1.9 Hamburger was updated to 1.6 Healthy Battery Charging was updated to 2.0.7 HTTP Request Shortcuts was updated to 3.18.0 idTech4A++ was updated to 1.1.0harmattan56natasha Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.0.5 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.4.6 Jami was updated to 20240823-01 Jellyfin for Android TV was updated to 0.17.4 Jitsi Meet was updated to 24.3.0 Keysh was updated to 0.1.4 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 1.0.0-alpha.5 Klick’r - Smart AutoClicker was updated to 3.0.2 Lyrics Grabbr was updated to 1.1.1 Lyrion was updated to 0.7.0 Mill was updated to 4.17.3 Money Manager Ex was updated to 2024.08.25 My Brain was updated to 2.0.0 My Expenses was updated to 3.8.7.1 Next Player was updated to 0.12.2 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20240827 Open Markdown Notes (OMN) was updated to 00.34.00 OpenAthena™ for Android was updated to 0.21.2 Orgzly Revived was updated to 1.8.26 Orion Viewer - Pdf & Djvu was updated to 0.95.0 Padland was updated to 3.1 Persian Calendar was updated to 9.2.0 personalDNSfilter was updated to 1.50.56.0 Petals was updated to 3.28.1 PhotoChiotte was updated to 1.56 Photok was updated to 1.7.4 PixelDroid was updated to 1.0.beta35 Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 6.4.0 Power Ampache 2 was updated to 1.00-66-fdroid Quote Unquote was updated to 4.43.0-fdroid Rank-My-Favs was updated to 0.3.3 RedReader was updated to 1.24.1 RiMusic was updated to 0.6.49.2 Rush was updated to 2.0.0 Save Locally: Share2Storage was updated to 1.3.1 Sayboard was updated to v4.2.1 SCEE was updated to 58.22 SchildiChat was updated to 1.6.20.sc80 SelfPrivacy was updated to 0.12.2 Session F-Droid was updated to 1.19.2 SimpleMarkdown was updated to 1.0.2-free SimpleX Chat was updated to 6.0.3 SpMp was updated to 0.4.1 Tailscale was updated to 1.72.0 The One App was updated to 1.1.4 Thumb-Key was updated to 3.4.2 Timed Shutdown [No Root] was updated to v2.60 TourCount was updated to 3.5.0 Traccar Client was updated to 7.6 Traditional T9 was updated to 37.0 Trail Sense was updated to 6.3.0 TransektCount was updated to 4.1.0 TriPeaks was updated to 1.1.3 Unciv was updated to 4.13.3 Vespucci was updated to 20.1.2.0 VRChat Android Assistant was updated to 2.0.1 YAM Launcher was updated to 1.0 You Have Mail was updated to 0.16.4 Youamp was updated to 1.0.2 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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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 Beta was updated to 2.19.0, bringing a steady stream of improvements for this FOSS chat solution that’s full of features: 1:1 chat, channels, threads, calls, archive search, dev tools integration, markdown, playbooks for processes, webhooks, plugins and more. And here’s the kicker: you can self-host the server!. Yes, it’s not on someone else’s computer (aka the cloud), no, it’s on yours, it’s On-Prem if you want it or in your own cloud. Even more, want the new fancy AI stuff? They’ve got a plugin for that too, so you can connect it to the big corporate controlled AI, or… to your own local AI (see a pattern there?). 😎 Is this the Slack or Teams killer that you’ve been looking for? Readrops was updated to 2.0-beta01, and at least one user reported some issues on their device. We’ve changed the F-Droid metadata to not pickup beta versions in the future, until the developer deems releases stable. While we could not reproduce the issue on other device, you can read the upstream issue and see if you need to postpone the update. Removed Apps 12 apps were removed Clipboard Cleaner, An android app for showing and cleaning clipboard and Tasky, A highly intuitive and easy-to-use todo list app were archived at the request of the developer. COVID19 related apps were past their time: Corona Stats, COVID-19 italian monitoring, Covid19 Stat, CovidAt, CovPass, CovPassCheck, free2pass, TousAntiCovid, UK COVID-19 Venue Check-in, USA COVID-19 Tracker Newly Added Apps 3 apps were newly added Click Switch: A game where you will have to hit the correct button FadCam: Seamless background video recording – ad-free, with customizable options YAM Launcher: A minimalist text-based launcher, with weather Updated Apps 66 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) Alibi was updated to 0.5.2 Amber was updated to 1.3.1 Aria for Misskey was updated to 0.14.1 Asteroid’s Revenge was updated to 0.11.0 Aurora Store was updated to 4.6.0 Barcode Scanner was updated to 1.24.1 Blue Square Speedometer was updated to 0.1.6 Boxcars was updated to 1.3.9 Calliope mini was updated to 2.0.3 Capy Reader was updated to 2024.08.1033-dev Celestia was updated to 1.7.6 Cirrus was updated to 2.9 Ciyue was updated to 0.4.3 Dicio assistant was updated to 1.1 droidVNC-NG was updated to 2.6.0 eduVPN was updated to 3.3.0 EinkBro was updated to 11.14.0 FairEmail was updated to 1.2224 Feeder was updated to 2.6.31 Fennec F-Droid was updated to 129.0.2 Flexify was updated to 1.1.86 FTPClient was updated to 2.10.0 HTTP Request Shortcuts was updated to 3.17.0 Ichaival was updated to 1.9.0 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.4.5 InnerTune was updated to 0.5.8 Interval Timer was updated to 1.1.0 IVPN - Secure VPN for Privacy was updated to 2.10.10 Just (Video) Player was updated to 0.168 KDE Connect was updated to 1.32.1 LibreTrack was updated to 1.5.1 LocalSend was updated to 1.15.4 mpv-android was updated to 2024-08-20-release Mull was updated to 129.0.2 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20240821 OONI Probe was updated to 3.8.9 Open Map was updated to 6.1.20 Open Sudoku was updated to 4.0.9 ownCloud was updated to 4.4.0-beta.1 Petals was updated to 3.28.0 Phonograph Plus was updated to 1.8.3 Practice Suite was updated to 2.1.1 pretixPRINT was updated to 2.19.2-foss ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to 5.5.68.0 QuickWeather was updated to 2.7.2 Quinb: 4 players reaction game was updated to 1.2.5 RedReader was updated to 1.24 RustDesk was updated to 1.3.0 Satunes was updated to 2.1.2 SaverTuner was updated to 1.1.3 Screenshot Tile (NoRoot) was updated to 2.11.2 sing-box was updated to 1.9.4 SocksTun was updated to 2.6 Suntimes was updated to 0.16.1 Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to 2.1.1 Taler Wallet was updated to 0.12.2 Toadua was updated to 2.3.0 TriPeaks was updated to 1.1.1 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.13.2 Tusky was updated to 26.1 Unciv was updated to 4.13.0-patch1 Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.39.3 Valv was updated to 1.10.1 Xeonjia: Ice Adventures was updated to 3.0.2 Xtra was updated to 2.33.5 Zoysii - Logic game was updated to 2.4.3 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. You are welcome to join the TWIF forum thread. If you have any news from the community, post it there, maybe it will be featured next week 😉 To help support F-Droid, please check out the donation page and contribute what you can.

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 in the past and it looked like a new release was just around the corner, I mean the app works fine but it hasn’t seen a stable release in 18 months, and while past CVEs don’t seem to affect it, there’s always the fear of the unknown or just the impression that “it is old”. Regarding the release delay, we understood that there are some issues regarding publishing VLC on some alternative centralized store but since same store owner was praising VLC not only on mobile devices but also on TVs we expected it to be fixed by now, yet it isn’t. And worse, it feels like that drama is delaying a stable release for F-Droid too. Eager users pinged us or opened Forum threads concerned that maybe F-Droid skipped a beat, as at least VLC is pushing nightly packages to their site just fine. Hoping the story above clears some things, F-Droid includes some other players that might strike your fancy, and these got updated in the last 2 months (not years): NOVA Video Player was updated to 6.2.93 this week Next Player was updated last week mpv-android and Just (Video) Player were updated in June and new versions are built as we speak Removed Apps 3 old apps were removed BART Runner: Timetables for trains in the U.S., as the API used appears to be no longer available. QuickLyric: Fetch and display song lyrics, stopped working Sharing: Share files and apps using browser, just got a name change, users should uninstall (old appid com.ammar.filescenter) and reinstall the new Sharing app that was added Newly Added Apps 8 more apps were newly added Cardabase: Save EAN-13 club cards on your phone Ciyue: A simple mdict dictionary Conversations Classic: Encrypted, easy-to-use XMPP instant messenger for your mobile device (a fork of Conversations from different developers wanting to preserve the old look and feel) gttrpg: Quick access for your DnD data with a built in way to track your character data kitshn (for Tandoor): An unofficial client for the self-hosted Tandoor recipe management software Material Notes: Simple, local, material design notes Solar: Monitor off-grid solar setups over bluetooth µLauncher: A distraction-free minimal homescreen for Android Updated Apps 150 more apps are no longer old (expand for the full list) [lWS.QR] lightweight Web Server QR code was updated to 05.00.00 Acode editor - Android code editor was updated to 1.10.4 Amethyst was updated to 0.89.10 Anuto TD was updated to 0.12 Apollo was updated to 1.5.13 Baby Books was updated to 0.9.2 Ball2Box was updated to 4.1.2 Battery Notification was updated to 1.4.6 Better Internet Tiles was updated to 3.0.0-fdroid Bide et Musique was updated to 4.1.0 Birday - Birthday Manager was updated to 4.5.1 blichess was updated to 8.0.0+ble1.0.2 Blood pressure monitor was updated to 1.7.3 Book’s Story was updated to 1.1.1 Break.Down.Timer was updated to 1.2.2 Brume Wallet was updated to 0.6.524 Cache Cleaner was updated to 1.12.3 Capy Reader was updated to 2024.08.1031 Celestia was updated to 1.7.5 Ceno Browser: Share the Web was updated to 2.2.1 Chaldea was updated to 2.5.12 Chess was updated to 9.5.0 Conversations was updated to 2.16.6+free Converter NOW: Unit Converter was updated to 4.2.3 Cuppa - Tea Timer was updated to 2.7.7 Cuscon was updated to 4.0.3.2 Dark Mode Live Wallpaper was updated to 1.7.1 Dart Checker was updated to 0.7.9 Dash Wallet was updated to 10.2.0 Drinkable was updated to 1.51.1 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.210.2 Easy Notes was updated to 1.3.5 EinkBro was updated to 11.13.0 Energize was updated to 0.9.0 Ente Auth was updated to 3.1.2 Eternity was updated to 0.2.1 FairEmail was updated to 1.2223 FitBook was updated to 1.0.81 Flexify was updated to 1.1.85 floccus bookmark sync was updated to 5.2.6 Flux News was updated to 1.5.5 Forkgram was updated to 10.9.8.0 FOSS Browser was updated to 16 Fridgey was updated to 1.8 Gallery for PhotoPrism was updated to 1.29.0 GraphHopper Maps was updated to 2.1.0 GreenStash: Track Your Savings was updated to 3.9.0 Hammer [ALPHA] was updated to 1.7.2 huggingAssist was updated to 2.1 Immich was updated to 1.112.1 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.4.4 InnerTune was updated to 0.5.7 IPCalc Android was updated to 2.2 Jellyfin for Android TV was updated to 0.17.3 Joplin was updated to 3.1.2 jtx Board journals|notes|tasks was updated to 2.09.01.ose Karbon was updated to 2.6.0 Karma Firewall was updated to 66 KDE Connect was updated to 1.32.0 Kepler-App was updated to 2.5.2 Key Mapper GUI Keyboard was updated to 1.4.5 Keyoxide was updated to 2.4.2 Kitsune was updated to 2.0.1 Klick’r - Smart AutoClicker was updated to 3.0.1 Klock was updated to 1.2.0 Kotatsu was updated to 7.4.3 LibreTrack was updated to 1.5.0 LMd - Le Monde diplomatique DE was updated to 2.2.0 Lyrion was updated to 0.6.3 MedTimer was updated to 1.9.3 Mercurygram was updated to 10.14.5.0 Meshenger was updated to 4.3.6 Migraine Log was updated to 0.11.3 Minetest was updated to 5.9.0 Minute Maze was updated to 0.2.0 Money Manager Ex was updated to 2024.08.13 MoneyBuster was updated to 0.1.20 MonsterMusic was updated to 0.1.25 Nekome was updated to 2.2.3 NeoStumbler was updated to 1.3.1 neutriNote CE was updated to 4.5.3c Next Player was updated to 0.12.0 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20240819 NFC Quick Settings was updated to 1.4.3 Notesnook - Private notes app was updated to 3.0.14 Nunti was updated to v2.6.0 Open Sudoku was updated to 4.0.6 openHAB was updated to 3.16.1 openHAB Beta was updated to 3.15.10-beta OpenVPN for Android was updated to 0.7.53 Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline was updated to 2024.08.16-5-FDroid OsmAnd~ was updated to 4.8.6 Paperize - A Wallpaper Changer was updated to 2.0.0 Petals was updated to 3.28.0-SNAPSHOT.0 PixelDroid was updated to 1.0.beta34 Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 6.3.7 Power Ampache 2 was updated to 1.00-65-fdroid Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to 1.24.4 Quicksy was updated to 2.16.6+free Quillpad was updated to 1.4.18 Quran 16 Line - Quran Revision Helper was updated to 1.2.3 Remote Video Camera was updated to 3.3 Revengate was updated to 0.12.9 RiMusic was updated to 0.6.48 Robot36 - SSTV Image Decoder was updated to 2.12 Rtl-sdr driver was updated to 3.151 Rush was updated to 1.9.0 Safe Space was updated to 2.0.5 Satunes was updated to 2.1.0 SCEE was updated to 58.21 ScreenStream was updated to 4.1.10 SDAI FOSS was updated to 0.6.3 Seal was updated to 1.13.0-(F-Droid) SelfPrivacy was updated to 0.12.1 Session F-Droid was updated to 1.19.1 Simple Crypto Widget was updated to 8.5.7 SimpleX Chat was updated to 6.0.1 SMASH — Smart Mobile App for Surveyor’s Happiness was updated to 1.9.4 SnapSaver was updated to 0.2.0 Snow was updated to 1.3.8 SocksTun was updated to 2.5 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 1.20 SpMp was updated to 0.4.0 Spotube was updated to 3.8.0 SSTV Encoder was updated to 2.11 Super Retro Mega Wars was updated to 0.32.5 Syncthing was updated to 1.27.10 Syncthing-Fork was updated to 1.27.9.0 Taler Wallet was updated to 0.12.1 taz was updated to 1.9.2 Terminal Emulator was updated to 5.1.0/X Threema Libre was updated to 5.5l Thumb-Key was updated to 3.4.1 TimeLapseCam was updated to 1.8 Track Work Time was updated to 1.1.25 TriPeaks was updated to 1.1.0 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.13.1 Tuta Mail was updated to 240.240816.0 Twire was updated to 2.11.0 Unciv was updated to 4.12.19 Valentin’s PowerTools #002 - Passwords to remember was updated to 1.0.5 Valentin’s PowerTools #003 - Gesture Drawing Pract was updated to 1.0.5 Valentin’s PowerTools #005 - Roll Some Dice was updated to 1.0.4 Valentin’s PowerTools #018 - Volume Percent Calcul was updated to 1.0.5 Valv was updated to 1.10.0 Vespucci was updated to 20.1.0.0 Vinyl Music Player was updated to 1.11.0 Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.17.0 VRChat Android Assistant was updated to 2.0.0 WG Tunnel was updated to 3.5.1 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 15 Aug 2024, Week 33 Community News Translations are the easiest way to help your favourite apps, not only that they’ll look nice when you use them in your language, but also this enables more users even if they don’t know the native language of the app developer. (That’s how I started too, remember?) The best way to translate is when projects have setup a translation portal, F-Droid signals such apps with the “Translation” link on website and in client, but not all apps have this so you might need to ask the developer to setup one first. For reference, top 3 used portals: Weblate (used by F-Droid too, open-source, self-hostable, our recommendation), Crowdin and Transifex (both proprietary but free for FLOSS projects). Also F-Droid contributor yzqzss has setup their own Weblate at toolate.othing.xyz for apps that won’t fit the main hosted.weblate.org criteria. Jami was updated to 20240802-01, but is the app translated in your language fully? If not, you can lend a hand, and their recent “How to contribute to translations” post guides you on how to start. At least two users pinged us about a peculiar habit of them that recent updates broke, running OsmAnd~ from F-Droid and OSMAnd from the upstream developer at the same time. The issue was introduced by the app developers, but F-Droid added a local fix too as needed for our heavily modified build recipe. You can update now to 4.8.5 and everything should work as it used to do. Translation wise, we’ve updated our app description a while ago but most locales were still old so we had to cleaned them up, and they’ll default to the English one now. There’s no translations portal yet, but you can submit your translation via Gitlab or the Forum, based on these 3 texts. For translations fans, our forum hosts a long thread with user ideas, if you want to dig further. We’ve got a lot of requests and concerns about Wikipedia being outdated, but the developers worked to fix the issue and the app is updated to current r/2.7.50495-r-2024-07-23. Removed Apps 12 apps were removed These were left behind and we already have better alternatives: Andlytics: Track your apps on Play Store aRevelation: Password manager (Manage your password with one of these apps) aRevelation: password manager based on Revelation Password Manager file format CuprumPDF: View PDF files (You’ll find another PDF viewer soon) DroidWall: Firewall frontend (Plenty of firewalls to choose from) Icon Request for Numix: Send icon requests to Numix (Try other icon packs) Mustard: Microblogging via StatusNet (Try AndStatus) Mustard {MOD}: Microblogging client sbautologin: Autologin for Starbucks WLAN Scrobble Droid: Keep track of what you listen to (Some players have scrobble support) Train Schedule: Sri Lanka train schedules 四次元: Sina Weibo client Newly Added Apps 4 apps were newly added BILIBILIAS: An auxiliary tool for Bilibili video caching, providing one-click caching Code Word: Guess the secret Code Word SocksTun: A simple and lightweight VPN over socks5 proxy (tun2socks) Tilde Friends: A p2p social network client (SSB) and a platform for writing and running web apps Updated Apps 103 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) Aalener Optik-Formelrechner was updated to 1.12 AirGuard - AirTag protection was updated to 2.3.1 Amber was updated to 1.3.0 Amethyst was updated to 0.89.9 Android 2 Linux Notifications was updated to 1.4.0 Apollo was updated to 1.5.11 Arcticons was updated to 10.4.0 Arcticons Black was updated to 10.4.0 Arcticons Day & Night was updated to 10.4.0 Arcticons Material You was updated to 10.4.0 Asteroid’s Revenge was updated to 0.10.11 Aves Libre was updated to 1.11.9 Breezy Weather was updated to 5.2.7_freenet Briar was updated to 1.5.12 Briar Mailbox was updated to 1.0.9 Brume Wallet was updated to 0.6.520 Bura was updated to 1.6.0 Calliope mini was updated to 2.0.2 Capy Reader was updated to 2024.08.1027 Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated to 14.1 Chaldea was updated to 2.5.11 Chip Defense was updated to 1.40 DAVx⁵ was updated to 4.4.2-ose DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.209.2 Easter Eggs was updated to 2.6.3 Ente Photos was updated to 0.9.16 Everyday Tasks was updated to 1.7.2 FairEmail was updated to 1.2220 Fennec F-Droid was updated to 129.0.0 FilmFacts was updated to 2.0 Find My Device (FMD) was updated to 0.6.1 Gauguin was updated to 0.29.1 HTTP Request Shortcuts was updated to 3.16.0 i2pd was updated to 2.53.1 ICSx⁵ was updated to 2.2.4 idTech4A++ was updated to 1.1.0harmattan55natasha Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.4.3 InnerTune was updated to 0.5.4 IVPN - Secure VPN for Privacy was updated to 2.10.9 J2ME Loader was updated to 1.8.2 Jellyfin for Android TV was updated to 0.17.1 Joplin was updated to 3.1.1 Kitsune was updated to 2.0.0 LibreTrack was updated to 1.4.2 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.2.0-beta.1 Lyrion was updated to 0.6.2 Mealient was updated to 0.4.8 MedTimer was updated to 1.9.2 Memory was updated to 3.4 Mill was updated to 4.17.1 Movie DB was updated to 0.9 Mull was updated to 129.0.0 Musify was updated to 8.5.0 My Location was updated to v1.06-fd Myne: Download & Read eBooks was updated to 4.0.0 Neo Backup was updated to 8.3.8 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20240810 Obtainium was updated to 1.1.19 OpenFoodFacts was updated to 4.15.0 openHAB Beta was updated to 3.15.9-beta OpenSyncedLists was updated to 1.0.9 OpenTracks was updated to v4.13.0 OSM Dashboard for OpenTracks was updated to 4.2.0 OSM Dashboard Offline for OpenTracks was updated to 4.2.0 Pagan was updated to 1.4.20 Phonograph Plus was updated to 1.8.2 PipePipe was updated to 3.7.0 PlainApp: File & Web Access was updated to 1.3.6 Plant-it was updated to 0.7.5 Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 6.3.6 Practice Suite was updated to 2.0.0 Productivity Tools - timeto.me was updated to 2024.08.04 Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to 1.24.2 QuickWeather was updated to 2.7.1 Ricochlime was updated to 1.11.1 RoMote was updated to 1.0.26 Rush was updated to 1.6.0 Safe Space was updated to 2.0.4 SanskritBasicsLetters was updated to 3.4 Screenshot Tile (NoRoot) was updated to 2.11.1 SDAI FOSS was updated to 0.6.2 Sensor Server was updated to 6.3.1 ServerBox was updated to 1.0.1051 Shader Editor was updated to 2.34.3 ShoppingList was updated to v1.16.0 SimpleReminder was updated to 0.9.14 SiYuan was updated to 3.1.3 strongSwan VPN Client was updated to 2.5.2 Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to 2.1.0 TermuC was updated to 0.1.2 Thumb-Key was updated to 3.4.0 Tip Calculator was updated to 1.2.0 TriPeaks was updated to 1.1-beta.2 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.12.0 Tuner was updated to 6.8.2 Unciv was updated to 4.12.18-patch1 Valentin’s PowerTools #003 - Gesture Drawing Pract was updated to 1.0.3 Valentin’s PowerTools #005 - Roll Some Dice was updated to 1.0.3 Valentin’s PowerTools #006 - Yes XOR No? was updated to 1.0.2 Valentin’s PowerTools #018 - Volume Percent Calcul was updated to 1.0.4 Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.16.0 You Have Mail was updated to 0.16.3 Youamp was updated to 1.0.0 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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TWIF generated on Thursday, 08 Aug 2024, Week 32 F-Droid core It’s no secret that F-Droid continues to live and thrive thanks in part to you, the users that donate, but also in part thanks to different grants we’ve received along these 14 years of existence. Our recent post covered the endangered NGI program and its importance. The Guardian Project has been a long time supporter of F-Droid, pouring in not only grant money but also human resources. They are now looking for a part-time Grant Administrator so if you find the list of their achievements tempting and your skills match the bullet points, don’t be shy and get in contact. Who knows, maybe you can be featured here next. 😛 Back in May we’ve highlighted the work contributors around F-Droid have done in order to shine a light onto the app downloads stats. The Divested (thanks!) hosted page just got an update, covering the weeks since then: https://divestos.org/pages/fdroid_stats /PS: if you are involved with the project(s) that download Termux packages 300.000 times per week, two advices: first, do get in contact with us because we’re curious about your work, and second please try to setup a round robin script of sorts that downloads from mirrors instead since we have plenty of those and it’s not in anyone’s benefit that you download 25-30Tb of data from our servers each and every week. 😐 Community News F-Droid has been using Maven repos in its builds given that developers love to depend on them, but also because rebuilding everything from source is a lengthy process, not yet perfected for the reproducible future we want to reach. We’ve chosen to trust a limited number of repos and also flag any misstep in their contents with an extra layer of verification. Two years ago we’ve explained a bit more on why we do this, in a post. At the start of 2021 one such big Maven repo, JCenter, announced that it was closing “soon”, but the developers pleaded for an extension receiving at least read-only access. We’ve hoped that, this being known, developers will choose in time to move their libraries to other Maven repos, or choose to use other libs from other repos. Hence 3 years have passed, but this appears to have never happened, our current running cycle yielded apps failing to find their dependencies hosted on JCenter, and we expect more and more to fail. The article “JCenter Sunset on August 15th, 2024” explains the timeline, the “why” and the next steps devs can take. Now that the ‘the chickens come home to roost’ we expect updates to be delayed as developers rush to change dependencies, integrate the old ones or refactor as needed. In the chaos that will ensue, we want to remind developers that, while it’s easy to fish some JAR or AAR files from your Gradle caches, stuff them in libs/ and call it a day, the inclusion policy governs over updates too, so make sure everything is replaced with equally FLOSS things. 😉 Latest “cleaning” hit Bilibili clients hard. PipePipe is still standing, but a new challenger was just included, bilimiao, Original Bilibili Time Machine. Back in April, André Staltz, the main Manyverse developer posted their last update on the project blog, and while the app has not seen updates in F-Droid for years, there was this glimmer of hope that eventually the NodeJS and NDK planets will align and the app would be buildable again. The app repo is now under new management and they’ve decided to switch focus away from the underlying protocol making the app resurrection a hard task. You can read about the future of the protocol in a post here. F-Droid archived the app, but we’ll keep an eye on the future endeavors coming out of these projects. LibreTrack was updated to 1.4.1 but this version had an issue making it unusable. If you didn’t update, use the menu to skip this version. 1.4.2 will come in a few days. Newly Added Apps 5 more apps were newly added AniVu - All-in-one app for RSS, BitTorrent dl & play Book’s Story - Dive into the world of adventure as you discover your favorite book’s story! Capy Reader - A smallish RSS reader MemoryGuardian - Take Control of Your Clipboard Nutrixious - Calories management from foods and physical trainings Updated Apps 153 more apps were updated APM was updated from 2.17.8 to 2.18.0 AVNC was updated from 2.5.2 to 2.5.3 Acode editor - Android code editor was updated from 1.10.3 to 1.10.4 AirGuard - AirTag protection was updated from 2.1.1 to 2.3 Amber was updated from 1.1.2 to 1.2.0 Amethyst was updated from 0.89.7 to 0.89.8 AniHyou - AniList client was updated from 1.3.3 to 1.3.4 Apollo was updated from 1.5.8 to 1.5.10 AppListBackup was updated from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 Avare was updated from 11.0.0 to 11.0.1 BLE Radar was updated from 0.25.3-beta to 0.26.1-beta BVD was updated from 2.1.2.foss to 2.1.3.foss Blood pressure monitor was updated from 1.7.1 to 1.7.2 Boxcars was updated from 1.3.7 to 1.3.8 Brethap was updated from 1.7.25 to 1.7.26 Bunny Media Editor was updated from 1.0 to 2.0 Cache Cleaner was updated from 1.11.5 to 1.12.1 Calendar Color was updated from 0.4 to 0.5 Carrion was updated from 1.20 to 1.21 Cartes IGN was updated from 3.1.5 to 3.1.6 Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet was updated from 2.30.0 to 2.31.0 ChatLaunch for WhatsApp was updated from v0.9.0 to v0.10.0 Cheogram was updated from 2.15.3-2+free to 2.15.3-3+free Chip Defense was updated from 1.38 to 1.39 Cirrus was updated from 2.7 to 2.8 ClashMetaForAndroid was updated from 2.10.1.Meta to 2.10.2.Meta Clipious was updated from 1.19.12 to 1.20.0 Cuppa - Tea Timer was updated from 2.7.1 to 2.7.6 Currencies: Exchange Rate Calculator was updated from 1.22.2 to 1.22.3 Dark theme was updated from 2.6 to 2.7 DeepL was updated from 8.4 to 8.5 Delta Icon Pack was updated from 1.9.3 to 1.9.4 DoliDroid was updated from DoliDroid Pro 3.0 to DoliDroid Pro 3.0 ETH & UZH canteens Zürich was updated from 1.8.2 to 1.8.3 EVIL SPIN!! was updated from 1.0.0 to 1.0.2 EVMap - EV chargers was updated from 1.9.5 to 1.9.6 Easy Launcher - Minimal launcher was updated from 0.1.9 to 0.2.2 Extirpater was updated from 1.6 to 1.7 FairEmail was updated from 1.2215 to 1.2217 Feeder was updated from 2.6.29 to 2.6.30 Find My Device (FMD) was updated from 0.5.0 to 0.6.0 FitoTrack was updated from 15.5 to 15.6 Flash Alert - Call and Message was updated from 2.2.5 to 2.3.0 Flowit was updated from 3.7 to 4.0 Fridgey was updated from 1.5 to 1.7 Frigoligo was updated from 1.1.1 to 1.2.0 GMaps WV was updated from 1.10 to 1.11 Gotify was updated from 2.8.0 to 2.8.1 Hacki for Hacker News was updated from 2.8.1 to 2.8.2 Healthy Battery Charging was updated from 2.0.5 to 2.0.6 Husky was updated from 1.5.4 to 1.6.0 Immich was updated from 1.110.0 to 1.111.0 Infomaniak Mail was updated from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2 Infomaniak kDrive was updated from 5.0.0 to 5.0.2 Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated from Build100.6.4 to Build100.6.5 J2ME Loader was updated from 1.7.9 to 1.8.0 Jass board was updated from 4.1.3 to 4.1.4 Jellyfin for Android TV was updated from 0.16.11 to 0.17.0 Joplin was updated from 3.0.8 to 3.0.9 KeePassVault was updated from 1.7.0 to 1.8.0 Kepler-App was updated from 2.4.1 to 2.5.0 Klock was updated from 1.1 to 1.1.2 Kotatsu was updated from 7.3 to 7.4.1 LISTEN.moe was updated from 6.1.0 to 6.2.0 LibreTorrent was updated from 3.5-beta01 to 3.5.1 LocalSend was updated from 1.15.2 to 1.15.3 LogFox was updated from 1.5.7 to 2.0.1 Lyrion was updated from 0.5.0 to 0.6.0 MOROway App was updated from 9.1.9 to 10.0.0 Markor was updated from 2.12.4 to 2.12.5 Massive was updated from 2.36 to 2.38 Mealient was updated from 0.4.6 to 0.4.7 MedTimer was updated from 1.8.15 to 1.9.0 MergedWiFiNLP was updated from 2.0 to 2.1 Meshenger was updated from 4.3.0 to 4.3.3 Mill was updated from 4.16.7 to 4.16.8 Money Manager Ex was updated from 2024.07.04 to 2024.08.01 Moshidon was updated from 2.3.0+fork.105.moshinda to 2.3.0+fork.107.moshinda MotionLock was updated from 1.1 to 1.2 Musify was updated from 8.3.0 to 8.4.0 NFC Quick Settings was updated from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2 NeoStumbler was updated from 1.2.3 to 1.3.0 Nex Notes was updated from 1.1 to 1.2 Nextcloud Cookbook was updated from 0.18.0 to 0.20.1 Nextcloud Dev was updated from 20240727 to 20240803 Notesnook - Private notes app was updated from 3.0.11 to 3.0.12 Obtainium was updated from 1.1.14 to 1.1.15 Odin was updated from 3.4.0 to 3.4.1 Open Sudoku was updated from 4.0.4 to 4.0.5 Open TimeLimit was updated from 7.0.0 to 7.1.0 Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline was updated from 2024.07.08-3-FDroid to 2024.07.27-8-FDroid Orgzly Revived was updated from 1.8.24 to 1.8.25 Orion Viewer - Pdf & Djvu was updated from 0.94.7 to 0.94.9 OsmAnd~ was updated from 4.8.3 to 4.8.4 Pachli for Mastodon was updated from 2.6.0 to 2.7.1 Peristyle was updated from 1.50_beta to 1.51_beta Petals was updated from 3.26.1 to 3.27.2 Phonograph Plus was updated from 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 Pilldroid was updated from v0.302-beta to v0.350-beta Pineapple Lock Screen (OSS) was updated from 1.3.1-oss to 1.3.2-oss Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated from 6.1.6 to 6.3.3 Power Ampache 2 was updated from 1.00-62-fdroid to 1.00-64-fdroid ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated from 5.5.17.0 to 5.5.27.0 QuickWeather was updated from 2.6.11 to 2.7.0 Rank-My-Favs was updated from 0.3.1 to 0.3.2 Ricochlime was updated from 1.10.1 to 1.11.0 Rush was updated from 1.4.0 to 1.5.0 SD Maid 2/SE - System Cleaner was updated from 1.1.2-rc0 to 1.2.2-rc0 Saber was updated from 0.24.3 to 0.24.4 Satunes was updated from 1.3.1 to 2.0.1 SelfPrivacy was updated from 0.11.0 to 0.12.0 Sensor Server was updated from 6.1.1 to 6.2.0 Share Paste O2 was updated from 2024.07.26 to 2024.08.02 Shiori was updated from 1.34 to 1.35 SiYuan was updated from 3.1.1 to 3.1.2 Simple Time Tracker was updated from 1.43 to 1.44 SkinBread was updated from 1.4 to 1.5 Sound Recorder Plus was updated from 1.0.0 to 1.1.0 Stopwatch was updated from 1.3 to 1.5 Suntimes was updated from 0.15.16 to 0.16.0 Taler Wallet was updated from 0.11.0 to 0.12.0 Tasky was updated from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 Thor was updated from 1.6.7 to 1.6.9 Thumb-Key was updated from 3.3.4 to 3.3.5 TimeLimit.io was updated from 7.0.1 to 7.1.0 Tip Calculator was updated from 1.0.2 to 1.1.0 Trigger was updated from 3.4.4 to 4.0.0 Träwelldroid was updated from 2.11.0 to 2.11.2 Unciv was updated from 4.12.13 to 4.12.15-patch2 Unexpected Keyboard was updated from 1.29.0 to 1.29.1 Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated from 0.39.1 to 0.39.2 VRChat Android Assistant was updated from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 Valentin’s PowerTools #018 - Volume Percent Calcul was updated from 1.0.0 to 1.0.3 Vidya Music: Aersia VIP Player was updated from 1.3.0 to 1.4.0 WG Tunnel was updated from 3.4.7 to 3.4.8 WiVeWa was updated from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2 Windscribe was updated from 3.75 to 3.77 Xray was updated from 7.3.0 to 7.4.0 Xtra was updated from 2.33.1 to 2.33.3 You Have Mail was updated from 0.15.0 to 0.16.1 Youamp was updated from 1.0.0-beta03 to 1.0.0-beta04 addy.io (formerly AnonAddy) was updated from v5.2.8 to v5.2.9 eXch. was updated from 1.3.2 to 1.3.3 gptAssist was updated from 1.50 to 1.60 mLauncher - Minimal and Clutter Free launcher was updated from 1.6.4 to 1.6.7 mensen was updated from 1.2.1 to 1.2.4 openHAB Beta was updated from 3.15.6-beta to 3.15.8-beta osm2gmaps was updated from 0.5.5 to 0.5.6 plees-tracker was updated from 24.2.5 to 24.2.6 uaTranslit was updated from 1.4.1 to 1.5.0 wX was updated from 55893 to 55902 wger Workout Manager was updated from 1.7.5 to 1.7.6 whoBIRD was updated from 3.4 to 3.5 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 😀 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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Imagine you created your very first app. You developed the concept, worked tirelessly on the key features, design, tested it and fixed the bugs. The moment has finally arrived and you are ready to share your creation with the world. But how? App stores are a great tool for sharing apps with end users, but each store has its own unique requirements, upload and approval process and for some, such as the Google Play Store, you need to pay a developer registration fee and create an account including a physical address to even get started. If you are a new developer, trying to bring your first app to market, the learning curve can feel a little steep. Once you have done it the first time, one could argue that the process feels somewhat familiar. However with each new release, each new update for your app, comes additional manual steps to follow.  So, if you were faced with the choice of navigating the app deployment and upload process with one app store, or doing it several times over with different app stores, with unique requirements and deployment processes, what would you choose?  For most new Android developers, the answer is simple, just get the app on Google Play and call it a day. And the reality is that the conversation often stops there for many mainstream Android app developers, feeding the monopoly and strengthening the hold Big Tech has on the market.  F-Droid is of course an excellent FOSS based alternative for those looking for a privacy-focused, community-led app store. But we are not the only app store solution developers could choose from. So what if there was a way to open up the market for new and existing developers by creating some fair and healthy competition? What if we could streamline the app deployment process, making it easier for developers to upload their APK to multiple stores at the push of a button? Well, this is exactly what F-Droid will be focusing on creating, for our initial contribution to the Mobifree project. User Research to Discover Pain Points and Potential Solutions To get started we began with a series of user research interviews to gain a deeper perspective on the current challenges developers and alternative app stores have, when it comes to app deployment. We paid particular attention to various compensation models favored by the developers and explored how to incorporate easy payment options into our solution. The results of the study were clear, developers are interested in listing their app on alternative app stores, but the app deployment and upload process to multiple stores is not straightforward. This results in a centralized market, with the majority of mainstream apps simply ending up on one app store. If we want to decentralize the market, and create more choice for developers and end users, then we need to make it easier for developers to list their app on multiple stores, streamline the update process, and consider developer compensation in our solution as well. After successfully identifying the pain points, some market research participants pointed out a FOSS-based solution on the market that solves some of them - Fastlane. Fastlane is an open-source platform aimed at simplifying Android and iOS deployment, by helping developers automate their development and release workflow. We had already been exploring how we could potentially use a Fastlane framework for our idea, so when some of our study participants mentioned they were already implementing Fastlane tools to automate their Google Play launches and updates, we took that as a good sign. However we noticed some limitations within the Fastlane framework. Their main focus is automating the app deployment, upload and review process for the two biggest players - Google Play and the Apple App Store. Our goal is to create a workflow that automatically deploys and uploads to multiple stores simultaneously, helping diversify the market. In addition to Fastlane´s app upload feature, the Fastlane core team and community have created a nice list of additional plug-ins for developers to further automate various aspects of the app development, screenshot generation, testing, uploading and the updating process. Once we begin the development process, we will have a clearer idea of how we can lean on Fastlane´s existing framework, for our own solution.  Accounting for Financial Sustainability Our aim is to create a solution that is streamlined and straightforward, encouraging a decentralization of the app market in general. But in order to create a solution that will be mainstream enough to make in-roads into the hold Big Tech has on the market, we need to consider how to streamline the payment processes as well, making it easy for developers receive financial compensation. Therefore, we included compensation model preferences in our interviews with developers to gain insight into their values and preferences. When it came to preferred compensation models such as pay-to-download, in-app payments, donations or subscription-based models, it became clear that the preferred model was highly dependent on the type of app and user base.  Some developers we interviewed noted a preference towards the old school pay-to-download approach. With this compensation model, users pay a one-time fee to download the app from an app store. The transaction occurs before the users has access to the app. For app stores like Google Play, this is straightforward as they have their own built in licensing service where distributing and verifying license keys is handled internally and the tool is of course proprietary.  If we want to create a solution that includes a pay-to-download option for developers who are uploading their apps to multiple app stores simultaneously, integrating with payment gateways like PayPal or Stripe can provide a straightforward approach to handle transactions externally. Users can purchase the app through these gateways and receive a download link or licensing key upon successful payment. Furthermore, to streamline the payment and licensing key distribution process, developers can leverage providers that offer unified APIs. These unified APIs simplify the integration by providing a single point of access to manage payments and distribute licensing keys across various platforms, ensuring a more efficient and cohesive user experience. After pay-to-download, several developers pointed towards a subscription-based model preference. In this case, they cited regular maintenance and storage expenses they carry as a company, as the reason for their decision. Subscription based compensation models often include a free trial period, then after that time limit has been reached, a payment occurs. We also heard the “freemium” model being used frequently, where some features are free, while others come at a cost. Subscription based models are considered a type of in-app payment, since the transaction is usually repetitive and occurs after the app has been downloaded and installed. Within the FOSS community, donation-based models are regularly adopted to improve access to technology, while securing financial sustainability of FOSS-based projects. Liberapay is a great FOSS-based example, providing a way to help facilitate regular, reoccurring donation payments, in a similar way to subscription model. Open Collective offers similar services and is also FOSS-based. However, Open Collective offers more advanced financial management tools for its users, and is geared towards larger projects with more complex needs. Additionally, they are more focused on individually occurring payments, rather than recurring ones. However, this is also an option. Several developers and app stores told us that prefer in-app payment models, because it gives them more freedom and flexibility for developers and end users alike. In many cases in-app payments include an SDK which is built into the APK file. This enables in-app payments to occur. The SDK typically integrates with a payment gateway such as Stripe or PayPal or a service provider. The SDK also includes UI components for payments, supports various payment methods such as credit cards and digital wallets, and also handles the transaction management. Finally we discussed in-app advertising as a potential revenue source. There are of course inherent privacy issues with advertising models that allow user tracking, so the general consensus was that if in-app advertising models are used, they should be done so with caution. Not only are privacy and data protection founding principles for both Mobifree and F-Droid, the use of tracking-based in-app advertising poses a moral dilemma as well. If someone wants to gain access to an app, but does not have the financial means to purchase it, they can use it at a different kind of price - their user data. It should be mentioned that it is possible to include in-app advertising without user tracking. However the lead conversion ratio drops dramatically, so the efficacy of this approach is not nearly as high.  Making sense of it all At the end of the day, finding a streamlined approach for app distribution that considers diverse compensation model options for developers and users is a tall order. However motivation and support for the concept is high, from both Mobifree partners, F-Droid contributors and the FOSS community in general. We are looking forward to taking you on the journey with us as we break ground on this project in the coming months. Stay tuned to our blog for future updates and if you would like to contribute to our project, feel free to reach out at mailto:team@f-droid.org.

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 01 Aug 2024, Week 31 F-Droid core One feature that was seldom in the limelight is HTTP Basic Auth for repositories, meaning you can have your own private repo that only trusted users can access. Until the recent repository UI overhaul, when such a repo was being added a dialogue would pop-up asking the user to authenticate. In the new UI this dialogue is gone, so now when you share a private repo you’d have to provide the credentials in the actual URL, eg. https://username:password@example.com/fdroid/repo/ Community News Fennec F-Droid and Mull were updated to 128.0.3, and the changelog is small. One of the more interesting add-ons for Firefox was launched about 2 years ago only for the Desktop app, powered by Bergamot, it provided local, private, in-browser translations. As time passed this useful functionality was merged in the main browser. In the mobile world, we got access to all the add-on just 9 months ago, yet the translation add-on was none to be found. 😠 It appears that the mobile browser is getting the same functionality too, soon. How soon? It’s called experimental, so if you open about:translations in Fennec today, you can quickly get some results. But this power is needed when viewing web pages, so the Mull developer worked their magic to enable it (as experimental as it is) right now for everyone. Just navigate to a page in a different language, and if the translation pop-up does not appear, open the menu and touch Translate. Hopefully Mozilla makes this a stable feature and adds more and more languages. Neo Backup was updated to 8.3.7 but we had to disable this version as it is crashing. For the time being, you can expand Versions in app details and install the older version, also open the upper right menu and select “Ignore this update” so the broken one is not installed. (Upstream issue) OsmAnd~ was updated to 4.8.3, this new release comes after they just celebrated their 14th birthday 🎉. The new version is feature-full and you can read everything about it in a new blog post. Newly Added Apps 8 apps were newly added EVIL SPIN!! - Evil Spin is a free, fun and open source App for spinning a wheel FilmFacts - Fun trivia game for cinema enthusiasts OPEN NGA - Third-party client for bbs.nga.cn OpenLynx - Public transport companion providing real-time data OpenWrt Manager - Manage your OpenWRT device from your phone Paperize - A Wallpaper Changer - An efficient wallpaper changer application with a clean design TermuC - A simple C/C++ IDE backed on Termux VPT#018-VPC - Calculate alcohol mass, content and volume in drinks Downgraded Apps 2 apps were downgraded OpenTTD was downgraded to 13.4.rev120 as the new version was missing some assets that broke the app. We will update it as soon as possible. Wulkanowy was downgraded to 2.6.16, but note that the app repo was archived by the developer and it is no longer actively maintained, so it might be gone soon enough too. Updated Apps 100 more apps were updated Alibi was updated to 0.5.1 Amethyst was updated to 0.89.7 AppListBackup was updated to 1.0.1 Aria for Misskey was updated to 0.13.7 Audile was updated to 1.5.3 BRouter was updated to 1.7.7 Baby Phone was updated to 1.3.0 Beat Feet was updated to 0.16.2 Bible Notify was updated to 4.6 Bimba was updated to 3.5.0 BitAC - Bitcoin Address Checker was updated to 1.2.0 BitBanana was updated to 0.8.4 Blue Square Speedometer was updated to 0.1.5 Cache Cleaner was updated to 1.11.5 Cartes IGN was updated to 3.1.5 ChatLaunch for WhatsApp was updated to v0.9.0 Circles was updated to 1.0.34 Clipious was updated to 1.19.12 Cuscon was updated to 4.0.3.1 DataBackup was updated to 2.0.3 DroidFS was updated to 2.2.0 Eat Poop You Cat was updated to 1.4.6 Exodus was updated to 3.3.2 FREE Browser was updated to 2.9 FitoTrack was updated to 15.5 Flang was updated to 1.9 Flexify was updated to 1.1.65 Flux News was updated to 1.5.4 Fossify Notes was updated to 1.1.0 Gauguin was updated to 0.29.0 Green: Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 4.0.31 GreenStash: Track Your Savings was updated to 3.8.1 HeliBoard was updated to 2.2 Immich was updated to 1.110.0 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.4.1 Inner Breeze was updated to 1.3.3 JMP SIM Manager was updated to jmp-v1.1.0 Kanji Dojo was updated to 2.0.9 Kvaesitso was updated to 1.32.2 Lexica was updated to 3.13.1 LocalSend was updated to 1.15.2 Markor was updated to 2.12.4 MedTimer was updated to 1.8.15 Mensa-Guthaben was updated to 1.3 Mightier Amp was updated to 1.0.16 Mill was updated to 4.16.7 MinCal Widget was updated to 2.17.2 MoneyBuster was updated to 0.1.19 MuPDF mini was updated to 1.24.8a MuPDF viewer was updated to 1.24.8a Muzei was updated to 3.6.1 MyHackerspace (New) was updated to 2.1.3 NewPipe was updated to 0.27.2 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20240727 OSMfocus Reborn was updated to 1.6.0-fdroid Oinkoin was updated to 1.0.66 OpenPaperView was updated to 1.1.13 PipePipe was updated to 3.6.1 Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 6.1.6 Prepaid Balance was updated to 2.7 Privacy Browser was updated to 3.18.1 Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to 1.24.1 ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to 5.5.17.0 QR Scanner (PFA) was updated to 4.6.1 Qwotable was updated to 2.1 RSSAid was updated to 3.0.2 Rank-My-Favs was updated to 0.3.1 RustDesk was updated to 1.2.7 Sapio was updated to 1.5.3 Screenshot Tile (NoRoot) was updated to 2.11.0 Seafile was updated to 3.0.2-pre Sensor Server was updated to 6.1.1 ServerBox was updated to 1.0.1034 Session F-Droid was updated to 1.18.6 Setter - A multi-purpose search app for Android was updated to 0.1.18 Share Paste O2 was updated to 2024.07.26 Simple Crypto Widget was updated to 8.5.6 SkyTube was updated to 2.990 SkyTube Legacy was updated to 2.990 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 1.19 Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders was updated to 13.11.1 Tasky was updated to 3.0.0 Text Launcher was updated to 1.4.1 The Life was updated to 1.27.3 Threema Libre was updated to 5.4.1l Thumb-Key was updated to 3.3.4 TourCount was updated to 3.4.9 Unciv was updated to 4.12.13 VRChat Android Assistant was updated to 1.2.0 Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.13.1 Xray was updated to 7.3.0 Yivi was updated to 7.5.6 Your local weather was updated to 6.0.2 floccus bookmark sync was updated to 5.2.5 i2pd was updated to 2.53.0 idTech4A++ was updated to 1.1.0harmattan53natasha openHAB Beta was updated to 3.15.6-beta taz was updated to 1.9.1 words.hk 粵典 was updated to 3.3.1 zSMTH was updated to 24.07.26 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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