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F-Droid 1.0 released

441 points by app4soft 9y ago

mkesper 9y ago
Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid/&gws_rd=cr&dcr=0&ei=XwPpWf74IseVaNCBobAI http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
- yohui 9y ago
  The Google cache link didn't work. F-droid.org loads fine for me, but if it's not working for others here's an archive.org snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20171019193128/https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid/ https://web.archive.org/web/20171019193128/https://f-droid.o...
m-p-3 9y ago
Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/owtKmNn.png https://i.imgur.com/owtKmNn.png
- malnourish 9y ago
  Wow, it's really come a long way since I first started using it.
- xelxebar 9y ago
  Way off topic, but I don't open imgur links anymore because they trash my data limits. I just want to open a dumb png/jpeg/whatever url, not megabytes of JS with a purpose I'm unable to divine. </whine>
rvense 9y ago
I use F-Droid for all my appsing. It's pretty good (though the apps aren't always).
beingmyself2 9y ago
Just updated, looks great! Big thanks to F-Droid team, without you I might have broken down and settled for the Google botnet.
hawski 9y ago
With Android Oreo's install-unknown-apps permission does F-Droid do updates without prompting for each package? Meta bikeshed: Please stop guessing my locale.
- bubblethink 9y ago
  It always used to update once you tick the unknown sources box. That box has become a bit more granular, but nothing like normal operating systems. Even if you tick that box, it will still ask you individually for each app if you trust it as a source of apks. It solves the f-droid issue since f-droid has some signature checks internally. So it's ok to trust f-droid on the whole as an application. However, android has no notion of gpg keys the way regular linux distros add repos/ppas. So you can't add someone's gpg key as a trusted source. If you download an apk in your browser, it will ask you if you want to trust the browser as a trusted source, which is like the universal set of apks.
- app4soft 9y ago
  Maybe, if you also install "F-Droid Privileged Extension"[1] it will give you what you want? [1] https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged/ https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged/
  - kasbah 9y ago
    Yes, I believe so. I use that to get auto-updates of f-droid apps
slezyr 9y ago
The biggest change: > Screenshots and feature graphics Finally.
- SnaKeZ 9y ago
  Finally! The lack of screenshots spurred me to build https://fossdroid.com https://fossdroid.com and opensource it (MIT license). The F-Droid team is great!
nathell 9y ago
F-Droid is my go-to place for no-nonsense Android apps. By no-nonsense, I mean "typically lightweight and not forcing me to create an account merely to use the core functionality." They may not be very pretty or polished, but they tend to do their job well. Obviously that's not true 100% of the time. But surprisingly often.
- slezyr 9y ago
  "Yalp Store" allows you to install apps from google store without google account.
  - forapurpose 9y ago
    I know of many such stores. Usually they are proxies: They download the app from the Google store, you download it from the proxy. The question is, how do you know they haven't inserted malware? It seems like a very obvious vector for attack. You could authenticate signatures or hashes, but where do you find the authoritative signature/hash? For those interested in taking a shot at using these services, here are a couple of the more credible ones I've run into in the last couple years (I haven't used them in at least 6 months, so possibly their status has changed). Use at your own risk!: - APK Downloader: By someone on XDA-forums, a leading Android dev community. It comes in several versions and forks by other XDA members, and for several platforms. I don't have time to sort them out now, sorry. Beware of malware-infected hosted implementations. http://codekiem.com/2014/08/07/official-apk-downloader-v2-download-apk-files-from-google-play-store-to-pc http://codekiem.com/2014/08/07/official-apk-downloader-v2-do... / http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1515021 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1515021 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809458 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809458 https://github.com/Lekensteyn/apk-downloader https://github.com/Lekensteyn/apk-downloader - Racoon: Desktop OS client for Play Store (along with its Github and XDA links) http://raccoon.onyxbits.de http://raccoon.onyxbits.de / https://github.com/onyxbits/Raccoon https://github.com/onyxbits/Raccoon / https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2772436 https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2772436
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SnaKeZ 9y ago
Great app and great team! Congrats!
KGIII 9y ago
Wait... It is ver. 1.0? Does this mean it has been beta for this whole time? I am obviously not an Android user. Sorry if this is a dumb question. For whatever reason, the text (mobile Safari, outdated a little) all appears in just one vertical row of letters.
- app4soft 9y ago
  F-Droid 1.0 – is client app. There was few "1.0betaX" before "1.0" release. f-droid.org – is website of F-Droid project. And, yes, website still in development and has some issues. Hope, F-Droid Team will fix website as soon as possible.
  - KGIII 9y ago
    Oh, I know what it is. It's Android apps that are all open source and a store for such - the client app. Android users can also sideload them from the site via APK. Did they just number the app differently and 1.0 doesn't mean first non-beta release? They've been out for quite a while. I read about them years ago. It would be surprising if their app had been beta this whole time and is just now getting their first non- beta release. That is the gist of my curiosity. I'm considering an Android device as my next device. F-Droid is on my radar.
- pserwylo 9y ago
  As a project, we are not very precious with version numbers. There have been many stable releases before this, but we named it 1.0 because of the shear amount of new features and improvements that went into it (Completely new UX, better management of updates, screenshots, feature graphics, and perhaps most importantly is internationalised metadata (descriptions, summaries, app names, screenshots).
  - KGIII 9y ago
    Ah! I get it. Thanks! I was kind of surprised that it'd be the first stable version as I've heard good things about you for years now. I don't think I've heard any non-good things. So, F-Droid is on my radar as I consider my next mobile options. My only Microsoft software is my phone. Yup... I'm a Windows Phone user. I know my shame. I do have an Andoid tablet somewhere. I'll have to check you guys out a bit more. Thanks!
andrepd 9y ago
I dislike the redesign, some parts at least. The bottom navbar particularly irks me. It's a navbar a la iOS, completely nonstandard for Android, where the sliding sidebar is preferred to navigate between sections of the app. The previous app had perfect compliance with the standard interface guidelines, no unexpected custom elements. This version has them by the truckload. It was much cleaner before, so this feels like a regression (even though I like some parts, such as the "Latest" screen. EDIT: The "Categories" screen is very pleasing and navigable too, were it not for the floating Search button senselessly blocking parts of the screen. I've always hated that trainwreck of an element. Particularly needless in this case: search belongs on a searchbar on the top (most usability and least surprise).
- app4soft 9y ago
  F-Droid could be improved in next versions, if you will send your feedback (issues, bug reports and feature requests) directly to F-Droid Team ;)
  - hiq 9y ago
    OP's pull request would be to basically revert all commits since last version, I don't think it's helpful. As OP, I was satisfied with the original design, and I really don't want the new one, so I'll keep an older version for as long as I can.
- s73ver_ 9y ago
  The bottom navbar has been part of the Material guidelines for a while now. Sliding sidebars are bad because of the challenges they pose for discoverability. https://material.io/guidelines/components/bottom-navigation.html https://material.io/guidelines/components/bottom-navigation....
  - on_and_off 9y ago
    They are also on top ... with our huge phones, it is a pain to reach. Anecdotally, resources wise it makes me happy to do not have sliding so I don't need to maintain 3 pages in memory
forapurpose 9y ago
Last I knew, F-Droid was a linchpin in the FOSS smartphone world. Without it, I'm not sure where people could reliably find FOSS apps (without taking big risks with malware). If FOSS is important to you, and you don't want to see a (or the) major platform abandoned to proprietary systems, consider supporting F-Droid. Thank you F-Droid! You guys make a difference.
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girzel 9y ago
Damn, I didn't realize I hadn't been updating the Android client. Just did it. The only sad thing is that the previous no-updates message has been replaced. It used to read "Congratulations! Your apps are up to date (or your repositories are out of date)." This always tickled me as a perfect evocation of the open-source software spirit: cheerful, optimistic, mildly pedantic, and technically correct. The new message omits the parenthetical. More user friendly, but missing a bit of FOSS personality.
- manwithaplan 9y ago
  I also liked the message the first few times I’ve seen it. But then I realized the parenthetical was false 99+ percent of the time (I’ll mostly see it when I’d just finished refreshing my repositories) and it became… irksome, exactly because it was mildly pedantic and technically correct.
- digi_owl 9y ago
  It is sadly the way that FOSS ends up because of pressures to be more "commercial". Frankly i dislike the new version, as i much prefer the list layout of the old. Never mind that now i have to dig into the settings to see what apps i have installed that match what is in f-droid repos (and thus can update via f-droid rather than Play).
  - eighthave 9y ago
    One of the great things about F-Droid is that it is all free software, so anyone is free to make their own F-Droid client. If you like the old UI, please fork it and maintain it. It shouldn't be much work since the XML app index format is maintained for backwards compatibility. For more info, see https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/issues/48 https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/issues/48
Skunkleton 9y ago
So there is a huge side benefit to installing F-Droid, even if you never install any apps from it. It registers as an "app store", so when a link launches the app store your phone asks you which one you would like to launch and you can cancel it. Edit: holy commas batman.
- mwilliaams 9y ago
  I think you can disable the auto-open in app settings. I have that setting. I'm on Oreo
  - Skunkleton 9y ago
    Yeah, I think that might be new. Thanks!
sundarurfriend 9y ago
Izzydroid repo has been a good addition to my F-Droid, a lot of very useful apps: https://android.izzysoft.de/repo https://android.izzysoft.de/repo Some great apps I've been using through F-Droid: * Battery Charge Limit (Stops charging at a desired level) - https://f-droid.org/app/com.slash.batterychargelimit https://f-droid.org/app/com.slash.batterychargelimit * Mi Manga Nu (Manga reader) - https://f-droid.org/app/ar.rulosoft.mimanganu https://f-droid.org/app/ar.rulosoft.mimanganu [ Stable, usable, without annoying ads - consistently better than manga readers from play store I've tried. ] * NewPipe (Lightweight YouTube frontend) - https://f-droid.org/app/org.schabi.newpipe https://f-droid.org/app/org.schabi.newpipe * SeriesGuide (keep track of your favorite TV shows and movies) - https://f-droid.org/app/com.battlelancer.seriesguide https://f-droid.org/app/com.battlelancer.seriesguide * Slide (Companion app for reddit) - https://f-droid.org/app/me.ccrama.redditslide https://f-droid.org/app/me.ccrama.redditslide * Termux (Terminal emulator with packages) - https://f-droid.org/app/com.termux https://f-droid.org/app/com.termux [sounds cool, haven't had a chance to use this yet. ] * XDA Labs (XDA Labs: Forums & App Store) - https://f-droid.org/app/com.xda.labs https://f-droid.org/app/com.xda.labs
- jaipilot747 9y ago
  Thanks for the link to Newpipe! Been looking for something like this ever since YouTube disabled playing videos in background tabs.
  - icebraining 9y ago
    There's also the YouTube Downloader for Android, which is not perfect but has served me well: https://dentex.github.io/apps/youtubedownloader/ https://dentex.github.io/apps/youtubedownloader/
    - vanderZwan 9y ago
      Just so you know, NewPipe lets you download videos too (although a dedicated app might have a better interface for it)
  - barbs 9y ago
SnaKeZ 9y ago
Some F-Droid apps stats: https://fossdroid.com/blog/foss-applications-statistics.html https://fossdroid.com/blog/foss-applications-statistics.html Best F-Droid apps (some): https://fossdroid.com/blog/best-f-droid.html https://fossdroid.com/blog/best-f-droid.html
Animats 9y ago
OK, I had F-Droid 0.97 installed. I asked it to update itself. Now it says I have version 0.102.3 installed. Do you have to advance one version at a time, or what? (Android 4.1.2, kernel 3.4.0).
- icebraining 9y ago
  I was on the 0.103.2 and I had to manually tap on the 1.0 version to update.
  - vanderZwan 9y ago
    Thank you, I thought I was going crazy
  - Animats 9y ago
    I did that, using F-Droid to install/update F-Droid, and it installed, but F-Droid "About" still says 0.103.2. Something in the build or repository is inconsistent.
    - Animats 9y ago
      Discussion on F-Droid forum: [1] F-Droid repository apparently lacked correct F-Droid for a few days. Fixed now. Successfully updated to 1.0. [1] https://forum.f-droid.org/t/why-isnt-f-droid-on-f-droid/1385/6 https://forum.f-droid.org/t/why-isnt-f-droid-on-f-droid/1385...
javitury 9y ago
I hadn't realized until now that you can have F-Droid auto-update your apps(using the Privileged Extension) even on Android 5+. First you have to install this: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged.ota/ https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged.ot... It will download a zip file to /data/data/org.fdroid.fdroid/ota/ that you have to flash. After having flashed that file you can use the regular privileged extension to update the system app: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged/ https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged/
rahimnathwani 9y ago
The blue 'Download F-Droid' button on that page links to https://f-droid.org/FDroid.apk https://f-droid.org/FDroid.apk which, at the time of writing, gives an older version. The 'Download APK' link below it links to https://f-droid.org/repo/org.fdroid.fdroid_1000010.apk https://f-droid.org/repo/org.fdroid.fdroid_1000010.apk which is version 1.0 EDIT: md5 sums below: 4b0cdb5a40fe3f964aebeca276291b80 org.fdroid.fdroid_1000010.apk 943f2edf663737a56f15f55739bcf148 FDroid.apk
- eighthave 9y ago
  We're doing staged rollouts, so first alpha testers, next current users, last new users.
  - mcny 9y ago
    I tried to pull down from within fdroid and didn't see any update. So I downloaded the apk and it says The package appears to be corrupted. Edit: followed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15514309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15514309 and i t updated
  - rahimnathwani 9y ago
    Thanks for the clarification. I was several versions behind (missed all the 1.0RC releases). They showed in the F-Droid app on my phone when I searched for F-Droid, but not in the 'Updates' tab.
vog 9y ago
F-Droid is a great project. I wonder why it is not installed on LineageOS by default.
dotancohen 9y ago
F-Droid sure has advanced, but I'm not sure that I like in which direction. This new version requires some rather invasive permissions that do not seem to be necessary, such as NFC, Bluetooth, the ability to change wifi state, etc.
- clort 9y ago
  F-Droid has been able to share apps over NFC, Bluetooth or wifi for some time. I don't know why they would need to change wifi state though, it does seem that if the user has disabled it then it should be disabled.
Mortiffer 9y ago
Nice, I was afraid they were going to slow down after this https://forum.f-droid.org/t/so-long-farewell-and-goodbye/600 https://forum.f-droid.org/t/so-long-farewell-and-goodbye/600
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441 points by app4soft 9y ago

Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid/&gws_rd=cr&dcr=0&ei=XwPpWf74IseVaNCBobAI http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

yohui 9y ago
The Google cache link didn't work. F-droid.org loads fine for me, but if it's not working for others here's an archive.org snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20171019193128/https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid/ https://web.archive.org/web/20171019193128/https://f-droid.o...

m-p-3 9y ago

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/owtKmNn.png https://i.imgur.com/owtKmNn.png

malnourish 9y ago
Wow, it's really come a long way since I first started using it.
xelxebar 9y ago
Way off topic, but I don't open imgur links anymore because they trash my data limits. I just want to open a dumb png/jpeg/whatever url, not megabytes of JS with a purpose I'm unable to divine. </whine>

rvense 9y ago

I use F-Droid for all my appsing. It's pretty good (though the apps aren't always).

beingmyself2 9y ago

Just updated, looks great! Big thanks to F-Droid team, without you I might have broken down and settled for the Google botnet.

hawski 9y ago

With Android Oreo's install-unknown-apps permission does F-Droid do updates without prompting for each package? Meta bikeshed: Please stop guessing my locale.

bubblethink 9y ago
It always used to update once you tick the unknown sources box. That box has become a bit more granular, but nothing like normal operating systems. Even if you tick that box, it will still ask you individually for each app if you trust it as a source of apks. It solves the f-droid issue since f-droid has some signature checks internally. So it's ok to trust f-droid on the whole as an application. However, android has no notion of gpg keys the way regular linux distros add repos/ppas. So you can't add someone's gpg key as a trusted source. If you download an apk in your browser, it will ask you if you want to trust the browser as a trusted source, which is like the universal set of apks.
app4soft 9y ago
Maybe, if you also install "F-Droid Privileged Extension"[1] it will give you what you want? [1] https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged/ https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged/
- kasbah 9y ago
  Yes, I believe so. I use that to get auto-updates of f-droid apps

slezyr 9y ago

The biggest change: > Screenshots and feature graphics Finally.

SnaKeZ 9y ago
Finally! The lack of screenshots spurred me to build https://fossdroid.com https://fossdroid.com and opensource it (MIT license). The F-Droid team is great!

nathell 9y ago

F-Droid is my go-to place for no-nonsense Android apps. By no-nonsense, I mean "typically lightweight and not forcing me to create an account merely to use the core functionality." They may not be very pretty or polished, but they tend to do their job well. Obviously that's not true 100% of the time. But surprisingly often.

slezyr 9y ago
"Yalp Store" allows you to install apps from google store without google account.
- forapurpose 9y ago
  I know of many such stores. Usually they are proxies: They download the app from the Google store, you download it from the proxy. The question is, how do you know they haven't inserted malware? It seems like a very obvious vector for attack. You could authenticate signatures or hashes, but where do you find the authoritative signature/hash? For those interested in taking a shot at using these services, here are a couple of the more credible ones I've run into in the last couple years (I haven't used them in at least 6 months, so possibly their status has changed). Use at your own risk!: - APK Downloader: By someone on XDA-forums, a leading Android dev community. It comes in several versions and forks by other XDA members, and for several platforms. I don't have time to sort them out now, sorry. Beware of malware-infected hosted implementations. http://codekiem.com/2014/08/07/official-apk-downloader-v2-download-apk-files-from-google-play-store-to-pc http://codekiem.com/2014/08/07/official-apk-downloader-v2-do... / http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1515021 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1515021 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809458 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809458 https://github.com/Lekensteyn/apk-downloader https://github.com/Lekensteyn/apk-downloader - Racoon: Desktop OS client for Play Store (along with its Github and XDA links) http://raccoon.onyxbits.de http://raccoon.onyxbits.de / https://github.com/onyxbits/Raccoon https://github.com/onyxbits/Raccoon / https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2772436 https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2772436
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SnaKeZ 9y ago

Great app and great team! Congrats!

KGIII 9y ago

Wait... It is ver. 1.0? Does this mean it has been beta for this whole time? I am obviously not an Android user. Sorry if this is a dumb question. For whatever reason, the text (mobile Safari, outdated a little) all appears in just one vertical row of letters.

app4soft 9y ago
F-Droid 1.0 – is client app. There was few "1.0betaX" before "1.0" release. f-droid.org – is website of F-Droid project. And, yes, website still in development and has some issues. Hope, F-Droid Team will fix website as soon as possible.
- KGIII 9y ago
  Oh, I know what it is. It's Android apps that are all open source and a store for such - the client app. Android users can also sideload them from the site via APK. Did they just number the app differently and 1.0 doesn't mean first non-beta release? They've been out for quite a while. I read about them years ago. It would be surprising if their app had been beta this whole time and is just now getting their first non- beta release. That is the gist of my curiosity. I'm considering an Android device as my next device. F-Droid is on my radar.
pserwylo 9y ago
As a project, we are not very precious with version numbers. There have been many stable releases before this, but we named it 1.0 because of the shear amount of new features and improvements that went into it (Completely new UX, better management of updates, screenshots, feature graphics, and perhaps most importantly is internationalised metadata (descriptions, summaries, app names, screenshots).
- KGIII 9y ago
  Ah! I get it. Thanks! I was kind of surprised that it'd be the first stable version as I've heard good things about you for years now. I don't think I've heard any non-good things. So, F-Droid is on my radar as I consider my next mobile options. My only Microsoft software is my phone. Yup... I'm a Windows Phone user. I know my shame. I do have an Andoid tablet somewhere. I'll have to check you guys out a bit more. Thanks!

andrepd 9y ago

I dislike the redesign, some parts at least. The bottom navbar particularly irks me. It's a navbar a la iOS, completely nonstandard for Android, where the sliding sidebar is preferred to navigate between sections of the app. The previous app had perfect compliance with the standard interface guidelines, no unexpected custom elements. This version has them by the truckload. It was much cleaner before, so this feels like a regression (even though I like some parts, such as the "Latest" screen. EDIT: The "Categories" screen is very pleasing and navigable too, were it not for the floating Search button senselessly blocking parts of the screen. I've always hated that trainwreck of an element. Particularly needless in this case: search belongs on a searchbar on the top (most usability and least surprise).

app4soft 9y ago
F-Droid could be improved in next versions, if you will send your feedback (issues, bug reports and feature requests) directly to F-Droid Team ;)
- hiq 9y ago
  OP's pull request would be to basically revert all commits since last version, I don't think it's helpful. As OP, I was satisfied with the original design, and I really don't want the new one, so I'll keep an older version for as long as I can.
s73ver_ 9y ago
The bottom navbar has been part of the Material guidelines for a while now. Sliding sidebars are bad because of the challenges they pose for discoverability. https://material.io/guidelines/components/bottom-navigation.html https://material.io/guidelines/components/bottom-navigation....
- on_and_off 9y ago
  They are also on top ... with our huge phones, it is a pain to reach. Anecdotally, resources wise it makes me happy to do not have sliding so I don't need to maintain 3 pages in memory

forapurpose 9y ago

Last I knew, F-Droid was a linchpin in the FOSS smartphone world. Without it, I'm not sure where people could reliably find FOSS apps (without taking big risks with malware). If FOSS is important to you, and you don't want to see a (or the) major platform abandoned to proprietary systems, consider supporting F-Droid. Thank you F-Droid! You guys make a difference.

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girzel 9y ago

Damn, I didn't realize I hadn't been updating the Android client. Just did it. The only sad thing is that the previous no-updates message has been replaced. It used to read "Congratulations! Your apps are up to date (or your repositories are out of date)." This always tickled me as a perfect evocation of the open-source software spirit: cheerful, optimistic, mildly pedantic, and technically correct. The new message omits the parenthetical. More user friendly, but missing a bit of FOSS personality.

manwithaplan 9y ago
I also liked the message the first few times I’ve seen it. But then I realized the parenthetical was false 99+ percent of the time (I’ll mostly see it when I’d just finished refreshing my repositories) and it became… irksome, exactly because it was mildly pedantic and technically correct.
digi_owl 9y ago
It is sadly the way that FOSS ends up because of pressures to be more "commercial". Frankly i dislike the new version, as i much prefer the list layout of the old. Never mind that now i have to dig into the settings to see what apps i have installed that match what is in f-droid repos (and thus can update via f-droid rather than Play).
- eighthave 9y ago
  One of the great things about F-Droid is that it is all free software, so anyone is free to make their own F-Droid client. If you like the old UI, please fork it and maintain it. It shouldn't be much work since the XML app index format is maintained for backwards compatibility. For more info, see https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/issues/48 https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/issues/48

Skunkleton 9y ago

So there is a huge side benefit to installing F-Droid, even if you never install any apps from it. It registers as an "app store", so when a link launches the app store your phone asks you which one you would like to launch and you can cancel it. Edit: holy commas batman.

mwilliaams 9y ago
I think you can disable the auto-open in app settings. I have that setting. I'm on Oreo
- Skunkleton 9y ago
  Yeah, I think that might be new. Thanks!

sundarurfriend 9y ago

Izzydroid repo has been a good addition to my F-Droid, a lot of very useful apps: https://android.izzysoft.de/repo https://android.izzysoft.de/repo Some great apps I've been using through F-Droid: * Battery Charge Limit (Stops charging at a desired level) - https://f-droid.org/app/com.slash.batterychargelimit https://f-droid.org/app/com.slash.batterychargelimit * Mi Manga Nu (Manga reader) - https://f-droid.org/app/ar.rulosoft.mimanganu https://f-droid.org/app/ar.rulosoft.mimanganu [ Stable, usable, without annoying ads - consistently better than manga readers from play store I've tried. ] * NewPipe (Lightweight YouTube frontend) - https://f-droid.org/app/org.schabi.newpipe https://f-droid.org/app/org.schabi.newpipe * SeriesGuide (keep track of your favorite TV shows and movies) - https://f-droid.org/app/com.battlelancer.seriesguide https://f-droid.org/app/com.battlelancer.seriesguide * Slide (Companion app for reddit) - https://f-droid.org/app/me.ccrama.redditslide https://f-droid.org/app/me.ccrama.redditslide * Termux (Terminal emulator with packages) - https://f-droid.org/app/com.termux https://f-droid.org/app/com.termux [sounds cool, haven't had a chance to use this yet. ] * XDA Labs (XDA Labs: Forums & App Store) - https://f-droid.org/app/com.xda.labs https://f-droid.org/app/com.xda.labs

jaipilot747 9y ago
Thanks for the link to Newpipe! Been looking for something like this ever since YouTube disabled playing videos in background tabs.
- icebraining 9y ago
  There's also the YouTube Downloader for Android, which is not perfect but has served me well: https://dentex.github.io/apps/youtubedownloader/ https://dentex.github.io/apps/youtubedownloader/
  - vanderZwan 9y ago
    Just so you know, NewPipe lets you download videos too (although a dedicated app might have a better interface for it)
- barbs 9y ago

SnaKeZ 9y ago

Some F-Droid apps stats: https://fossdroid.com/blog/foss-applications-statistics.html https://fossdroid.com/blog/foss-applications-statistics.html Best F-Droid apps (some): https://fossdroid.com/blog/best-f-droid.html https://fossdroid.com/blog/best-f-droid.html

Animats 9y ago

OK, I had F-Droid 0.97 installed. I asked it to update itself. Now it says I have version 0.102.3 installed. Do you have to advance one version at a time, or what? (Android 4.1.2, kernel 3.4.0).

icebraining 9y ago
I was on the 0.103.2 and I had to manually tap on the 1.0 version to update.
- vanderZwan 9y ago
  Thank you, I thought I was going crazy
- Animats 9y ago
  I did that, using F-Droid to install/update F-Droid, and it installed, but F-Droid "About" still says 0.103.2. Something in the build or repository is inconsistent.
  - Animats 9y ago
    Discussion on F-Droid forum: [1] F-Droid repository apparently lacked correct F-Droid for a few days. Fixed now. Successfully updated to 1.0. [1] https://forum.f-droid.org/t/why-isnt-f-droid-on-f-droid/1385/6 https://forum.f-droid.org/t/why-isnt-f-droid-on-f-droid/1385...

javitury 9y ago

I hadn't realized until now that you can have F-Droid auto-update your apps(using the Privileged Extension) even on Android 5+. First you have to install this: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged.ota/ https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged.ot... It will download a zip file to /data/data/org.fdroid.fdroid/ota/ that you have to flash. After having flashed that file you can use the regular privileged extension to update the system app: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged/ https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged/

rahimnathwani 9y ago

The blue 'Download F-Droid' button on that page links to https://f-droid.org/FDroid.apk https://f-droid.org/FDroid.apk which, at the time of writing, gives an older version. The 'Download APK' link below it links to https://f-droid.org/repo/org.fdroid.fdroid_1000010.apk https://f-droid.org/repo/org.fdroid.fdroid_1000010.apk which is version 1.0 EDIT: md5 sums below: 4b0cdb5a40fe3f964aebeca276291b80 org.fdroid.fdroid_1000010.apk 943f2edf663737a56f15f55739bcf148 FDroid.apk

eighthave 9y ago
We're doing staged rollouts, so first alpha testers, next current users, last new users.
- mcny 9y ago
  I tried to pull down from within fdroid and didn't see any update. So I downloaded the apk and it says The package appears to be corrupted. Edit: followed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15514309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15514309 and i t updated
- rahimnathwani 9y ago
  Thanks for the clarification. I was several versions behind (missed all the 1.0RC releases). They showed in the F-Droid app on my phone when I searched for F-Droid, but not in the 'Updates' tab.

vog 9y ago

F-Droid is a great project. I wonder why it is not installed on LineageOS by default.

dotancohen 9y ago

F-Droid sure has advanced, but I'm not sure that I like in which direction. This new version requires some rather invasive permissions that do not seem to be necessary, such as NFC, Bluetooth, the ability to change wifi state, etc.

clort 9y ago
F-Droid has been able to share apps over NFC, Bluetooth or wifi for some time. I don't know why they would need to change wifi state though, it does seem that if the user has disabled it then it should be disabled.

Mortiffer 9y ago

Nice, I was afraid they were going to slow down after this https://forum.f-droid.org/t/so-long-farewell-and-goodbye/600 https://forum.f-droid.org/t/so-long-farewell-and-goodbye/600

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