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by eighthave 7y ago
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 do
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by eighthave 7y ago
Any claims that F-Droid will ban, censor, etc. are wrong and based on misunderstandings. F-Droid will never block the ability to subscribe to any repo that the user wants to, or to install any app from all the included repos. So the user
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by eighthave 8y ago
I think Signal does a very good job at providing easy security for the masses. But for journalists and sources it can be dangerous since it is based on real phone numbers, and those phone numbers are sent to the server to be matched up. I
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by eighthave 8y ago
Android explicitly forbids running unsigned APKs, it is not possible to do.
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by eighthave 8y ago
That blog post is deceptive. Their instructions only reproduce the Java part, which is pretty easy to do. But Signal requires libraries written in C (aka "native code"), and they do not have that building reproducibly. The only
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by eighthave 9y ago
We're doing staged rollouts, so first alpha testers, next current users, last new users.
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by eighthave 9y ago
We actually did a lot of work to make sure that the new UI fit into the design guidelines and actual UI practice. Indeed, we tried to make it feel more natural for more users. Of course, its a big change from the old UI, so that's a
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by 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 form
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Building a trustworthy app store that respects privacy(guardianproject.info)
1 points by eighthave 11y ago|0 comments
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by eighthave 11y ago
Look at Android, the most popular computing platform in the world, and you will see how native has won. Even Facebook and YouTube are native apps on Android.
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by eighthave 11y ago
Great article, I'd just like to point out that URLs by no means only work on the web. Android has deep, native support for URLs in apps, and are frequently used for inter-app communications that have nothing to do with the web. Anoth
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Getting Android tools into Debian(guardianproject.info)
2 points by eighthave 11y ago|0 comments
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by eighthave 11y ago
fossdroid.com looks quite nice, a great start. As a big contributor to FDroid, I think it makes sense to run fossdroid.com as a separate project right now so it can develop fast on its own. Then we can figure out how best to integrate it
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by eighthave 11y ago
While we love more people testing the system/priv-app and root support in FDroid, keep in mind it is very very beta and not ready for general use. We did just have the core functionality professionally audited, and have fixed the issu
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by eighthave 11y ago
Verifying signing keys is one thing, but even better, f-droid.org can verify that the APK builds 100% from source, and that the APK f-droid.org builds matches the developer's official released APK: https://f-droid.org/w