If you're not getting icons and screenshots, that most likely because your data/wifi settings are set to not download them. For example, if you never/rarely us

If you're not getting icons and screenshots, that most likely because your data/wifi settings are set to not download them. For example, if you never/rarely use WiFi, and your data/wifi settings are set to only allow downloading over WiFi, it won't download the icons or screenshots. Originally, we had same defaults for everyone, then we updated it so that if you started F-Droid without WiFi on, then it would always allow downloads over data. That said, yes, the official client could be improved, and we welcome contributions. The security side of F-Droid is quite solid, that's the problem with the various forks. They focus on UX, without the careful attention needed for security. The ideal world would be that the core of the official F-Droid client would be a standalone library, so that the forks can have the same solid base. We welcome contributions there.