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Keep Android Open

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 20 Feb 2026, Week 8 F-Droid core During our talks with F-Droid users at FOSDEM26 we were baffled to learn most w...

Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection

If you are running Android 8 or higher, a virus has been installed on your device and is silently awaiting remote activation. Over the past few months, devic...

What we talk about when we talk about sideloading

We recently published a blog post with our reaction to the new Google Developer Program and how it impacts your freedom to use the devices that you own in th...

F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree

For the past 15 years, F-Droid has provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world to find and install free and open source apps. When co...

F-Droid 2.0

After more than a year of hard work, we are thrilled to announce the launch of F-Droid 2.0, a complete redesign of the official F-Droid app and the largest a...

UnifiedPush: A decentralized, open-source push notification protocol

A modern Android smartphone relies on a lot of services, from app stores and calendars to messaging and push notifications. Most of them have open alternativ...

A faster heart for F-Droid

Donations are a key part of what keeps F-Droid independent and reliable and our latest hardware update is a direct result of your support. Thanks to donation...

New F-Droid repository format for faster and smaller updates

We just released version 1.16 of the official F-Droid client app for Android which includes many radical changes under the hood as well as many bug fixes for...

Curation and decentralization is better than millions of apps

No user accounts, by design

Ethics has been central to the F-Droid community from the beginning, with a focus on free software, privacy and user control. A key part of F-Droid’s design ...

OpenPush: A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android

Push messages are an essential part of connected mobile devices. They are also one of the critical missing pieces in the open source Android ecosystem. Until...

F-Droid's Progress and What's Coming in 2025

With 2024 now behind us, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the growth and achievements we accomplished as a community last year, and celebrate the inc...

Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to engage in a mobile ecosystem outside of the watchful eye of the Big Tech giants and gatekeepers? A system tha...

F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund's FOSS Sustainability Grant

We are excited to announce that F-Droid has been awarded $396,044 from the Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Fund. This grant is specifically design...

Towards a Reproducible F-Droid

A common criticism directed at F-Droid is that F-Droid signs published APKs with its own keys. Using our own keys doesn’t mean insecure — we have a good trac...

How Tutanota replaced Google’s FCM with their own notification system

As mentioned in This Week In F-Droid 17, Tutanota is now on F-Droid. In this special post Ivan from Tutanota, tells us the story. Hi, I’m Ivan and I am devel...

F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026

Nominations are now open for this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Board of Directors! We are looking to select up to four volunteer directors to serve for...

How FOSS Projects Handle Legal Takedown Requests

Our build and release infrastructure, and upcoming updates

Decentralizing Distribution

Guardian Project has been awarded a grant from the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) to work on decentralizing veracity and distribution (...