As we wrote about back in September in F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Decree, Google plans to enforce mandatory developer registration as a requirement for building and distributing Android applications worldwide. Android, currently an open platform where anyone can develop and distribute applications freely, is to become a locked-down platform,...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 20 Feb 2026, Week 8 F-Droid core During our talks with F-Droid users at FOSDEM26 we were baffled to learn most were relieved that Google has canceled their plans to lock-down Android. Why baffled? Because no such thing actually happened, the plans...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Monday, 09 Feb 2026, Week 7 F-Droid core On 31 January & 1 February 2026 in Brussels, Belgium, part of the F-Droid Team and Board were at FOSDEM 2026. We had a booth to present our project but also had flyers, stickers, camera...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 29 Jan 2026, Week 5 F-Droid core F-Droid Basic was updated to 2.0-alpha1 fixing little things: Show issue for apps we had installed with different signer Manual repo update icon now is ‘Sync’ Fix some changelog logic, pick better Don’t show issues...

Протягом минулого року ми були зайняті модернізацією нашого застосунку. Робота, що підтримується NGI Mobifree, просунулася добре, і зараз ми на етапі випуску першої альфа-версії та просимо спільноту надати відгуки та провести тестування. Зверніть увагу, що наразі цей реліз доступний лише для F-Droid Basic, оскільки повна версія ще не готова. Хоча...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 23 Jan 2026, Week 4 F-Droid core Back in March 2024 we announced our switch to Debian version 12 (named Bookworm) and today we are announcing our upgrade to version 13 nicknamed Debian Trixie. We have been testing this internally for months...

2025 рік був важливим для F-Droid. Ми не лише відсвяткували 15 років безпечного розповсюдження додатків FOSS користувачам по всьому світу, але й залучили нових розробників, членів правління та партнерів проєкту, інвестували в оновлення інфраструктури, а також відіграли активну роль у захисті інтересів незалежних магазинів додатків та розробників FOSS. Спільнота, внески...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 15 Jan 2026, Week 3 F-Droid core The F-Droid website has not been refreshed since January 5th due to some infrastructure issues, hence new apps and new updates were delayed to be listed. If you can read this it means we fixed...