In the mirror universe
Posted on Apr 09, 2026 by
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 09 Apr 2026, Week 15 F-Droid core Mirrors are an integral part of F-Droid, as a vector for decentralization and user freedom. Besides our main servers, we had about 16 mirrors spread between Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Finland, France, Sweden, Taiwan, Singapore and...
It's metadata all the way down
Posted on Apr 03, 2026 by
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 03 Apr 2026, Week 14 F-Droid core F-Droid Basic was updated to 2.0-alpha6, and we’ve announced it already in a, we hoped, humorous toot back on April first. That ending flew over some heads or maybe people want to hear more good...
New language: Croatian / Hrvatski
Posted on Mar 31, 2026 by
The F-Droid website is now also available in the Croatian language.
Thanks for everyone that contributed! While the website is translated, there are still some other components that are currently in progress. Those interested in contributing to F-Droid’s contribution efforts, are encouraged to contribute via Hosted Weblate.
How to pre-add repositories to F-Droid in Android ROMs (Important changes in 2.0)
Posted on Mar 28, 2026 by
If you are publishing an Android ROM, you can add some extra pre-installed repositories to the F-Droid app which otherwise only includes the official F-Droid repository. If you wanted to add the repository of the Guardian Project for example, you could add the following JSON file to one of the...
Roads ahead
Posted on Mar 27, 2026 by
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 27 Mar 2026, Week 13 Community News ArcaneChat was updated to 2.46.0 and Delta Chat to 2.47.0 and their changelogs almost match. The team is fairly active in the Fediverse and wants to make people realize that while end-to-end encryption for your...
Patience is the key
Posted on Mar 19, 2026 by
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 19 Mar 2026, Week 12 F-Droid core Even if not daring enough to install our latest client in development, we reiterate our message: get people to install F-Droid now, before it’s too late. It’s a small gesture that will prove to be...
Normalizing app store choice
Posted on Mar 13, 2026 by
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 13 Mar 2026, Week 11 F-Droid core The countdown to September lock-down continues. Did you do your part? Did you contact your local representative yet? What did they answer? Did you install F-Droid on all you family’s members and close friends devices?...
Website gets some love
Posted on Feb 27, 2026 by
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 27 Feb 2026, Week 9 F-Droid core Banners aside, we’ve been working a lot behind the scenes on our website. Several functional and textual changes were on our TODO for years, just waiting for the right people to sit down and type...
