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This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live since yesterday: * #EU #DMA for you and me * @npub1l3q3...hlvh gives us a reason to activate #NFC #Passkeys #FIDO2 * get the app phone manufacturers hate: #CircleToSearch * #PeerTube is ready for creators * #QUIK #SMS got a new appid, did you switch yet? + 19 new apps & 160 updates - 2 app archived Touch that special place:

Free your secure key | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 18 Dec 2025, Week 51 Community News Tech Policy Press has a series of posts titled “Symposium on D...

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live: * website maintenance w/ #reproduciblebuild info * #FSFE @npub1rg6e...c3zj on #EU #DMA vs #FLOSS * #Dib2qm depreciated, jump ship now * #Jami talks about #FLOSS importance * #NWS weather widget broken * #SessionMessenger protocol v2 #PFS #PQC + 10 new apps & 214 updates -2 apps archived Check yo' signer:

Signed by... whom? | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 05 Dec 2025, Week 49 F-Droid core Since F-Droid is an Android “package manager”, we advise users t...

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is so quick: * news from below, sneak peek on our infra * more #Ente partnerships * #K9Mail #Thunderbird one year later #JMAP * fourth #ProtonPrivacy app included (still not #ProtonMail) * #Saracroche inclus, appels de spam exclus * #StatusIM goes legacy, new app soon * #Syncthing Fork drama, #ReproducibleBuild to the rescue? + 11 new apps & 211 updates Expand your repertoire:

Practical results | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 27 Nov 2025, Week 48 F-Droid core In the process of doing all this development work, we ran mass reb...

15 years fly by like last week, when you're the package manager for #Android, but you feel the technical debt more and more. What to do? Rip it out and start over? Improve bit by bit? RiiR? Find out how #FDroid prepares for the next 15 here:

An experiment in automated building from source, 15 years later | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

15 years ago this month, @CiaranG started “an experiment in automated building from source”. And so F-Droid began to automate building all our ...

This week in F-Droid (TWIF) is up and running: * #Fossify Messages heads up * #SwatchIt to the #knitting rescue * #LineageOS + #FDroid + #XMPP spell ❤️ in Italian * #Immich growing pains, somebody is G-ealous * #LibreTube #MaterialDesign Expressive on the edge + 4 new apps & 137 updates - 2 archived apps Flip the toggle:

Watch a swatch | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 30 Oct 2025, Week 44 Community News Fossify Messages update 1.5.0 from last week has been having som...

#Google trips over its own words, when they sell you #Android it's the best computing device in the world that does everything. After you bought it Google doesn't let you do anything *you* want to. #Sideload is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing”, regardless of whether that computer is in your pocket or on your desk. What Do You Talk About When You Talk About Sideloading? What does Google? Here's #FDroid:

What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

We recently published a blog post with our reaction to the new Google Developer Program and how it impacts your freedom to use the devices that you...

Until December 4, The European Commission and the Data Protection Board have launched a public consultation to gather feedback on draft guidelines on the interplay between #DMA and #GDPR. "DMA foresees alternative app stores for which gatekeepers may put in place strictly necessary and proportionate measures that must also comply with GDPR". Funny, that sounds like Google forcing all Android users and developers to submit their IDs to Google... or else. Proportionate???

Digital Markets Act (DMA)

Consultation on joint guidelines on the interplay between DMA and GDPR

On 9 October 2025, the Commission and the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) have launched a public consultation to gather feedback on draft gui...

What time it is? It's 5 o'clock... somewhere. So here comes the fifth #FDroid legal post. It's all about content, transparency, and user protections. It features strong tags like #OnlineSafetyAct #Ofcom #DSA and #DMA and how these shape our own policies. Will this break some prejudice? One way to find out:

Navigating the Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act and the Online Safety Act | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Introduction In our previous article, we explored how Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects like F-Droid handle legal requests for user or ...