Pining for packages: Android dependency management and F-Droid Push Requests
Postado em 2021-10-15 por eighthaveOne thing that made GNU/Linux distros so popular is that dependency management was built into the operating system. In Debian, all software installed is packaged as a .deb, and its all installed from the Debian repositories. Android has always lacked this kind dependency management, and many of us sorely miss...
New language: Romanian
Postado em 2021-06-30 por Licaon_KterThe F-Droid website is now available in Romanian too, thanks to the efforts of the few volunteer contributors. While the main pages have been completed, the Docs and app descriptions are still in progress. Those interested in lending a hand for their completion or for improving existing translations, are encouraged...
Informação importante para toda a comunidade
Postado em 2021-06-10 por F-DroidOlá comunidade,
Devido aos eventos recentes, a equipe do F-Droid decidiu migrar do Freenode ao OFTC. Escolhemos OFTC porque vários projetos com quais a equipe do F-Droid está particularmente alinhada (como o Debian e o Tor) já vêm usando OFTC por muitos anos.
Esta decisão não foi fácil para nós,...
F-Droid Metrics and Clean Insights
Postado em 2021-03-01 por eighthaveThe F-Droid community has been discussing how to measure what apps are popular for a long time. From 2012 through 2015, some simple download counts were maintained in fdroiddata. We also sketched out an idea based on Debian’s “Popularity Contest”. Then we determined a safe way to
Running emulator tests on GitLab CI
Postado em 2021-02-24 por eighthaveGitLab CI (Continuous Integration) has become an essential part of the F-Droid community processes. It is free software, built on open standards, and works well. The last piece that is missing from our testing ecosystem is a reliable way to run tests in actual Android emulators. Thanks to pushes from...
εxodus ETIP: The Canonical Database for Tracking Trackers
Postado em 2021-02-22 por eighthaveThere is a new story to add to the list of horrors of Surveillance Capitalism: the United States’ Military is purchasing tracking and location data from companies that track many millions of people. Users must have real options for stepping out of “big tech”, where tracking dominates....
Android broadcasts data leakage
Postado em 2021-02-22 por uniqxF-Droid has a long history of transparently warning users about potential risks with apps we’re distributing. Our team is currently specifically focusing on: tracking. Usually tracking is perfectly opaque to users. In privacy policies this collected data often is described as metadata, which is usually is a crude over-simplification....
New language: Japanese
Postado em 2021-02-21 por ChanoSanThanks to the efforts of many volunteer contributors, the F-Droid website is now available in Japanese. While the main pages and tutorials have been completed, the FAQs and app descriptions are still in progress. Those interested in adding to these translations, or improving existing translations, are encouraged to contribute via...