F-Droid

Remembered about this a Lemmy convo.

It is good. Animations or pictures beyond the selected size are replaced by a red border. Clicking it will load that image. Or you can temporarily turn it off for the website and reload the tab.

There is an option to exclude Websites from from it too. e.g. You can exclude Lemmy instances where you want to see images by default.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-large-media-elements

Sharing it here since I had heard that uBo with full capabilities is now only available in Firefox

Pretty much what the title implies. I enjoy the feature itself and find it useful for browsing and discovering applications on F-Droid that I didn't know existed, but there are certain categories of applications that I have no use for and would find it easier to filter them out rather than ignore.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.astroloop.game

This seems to have come out of nowhere (dev has no other repos) but very polished and addictive. Anyone else enjoying this new game?

Hands off AI programs, where for example if I get a text message, without using my hands it read it to me, and I can use my voice to reply.

And any of other features like reading notifications, emails, whatever else! :-)

Parents live far away, so I sent them a qr code generated by my local SimpleX per email.

All they have to do is open their local SimpleX, go to one-time link and scan the qr code, right?

Once our devices have been connected, connection details remains saved in our local SimpleX and I don't need to send a new qr code before I want to talk to them again, right?

I hope you guys understand my question, as somebody who has used VOIP on very limited times.

On a regular phone call, there is a constant line of communication, meaning both sides could talk at the same time if they wanted. I thought VOIP would be like this, but in my experience VOIP is a short audio message you send, the other side hears it and sends you an answer, nothing wrong with that.

I want to talk to family, I don’t want to use whatsapp and I’m experimenting with SimpleX Chat. It allows me to send short audio files as audio messages, but it’s still not a continuous LOC. Would whatsapp be the same?

I want to convince family to use SimpleX, user experience would have to be as similar as possible to whatsapp

don't know if this is an appropriate community

I don't particularly like this application, but my whole family uses and they simply won't use any foss alternative I've proposed so far.

I'm even thinking about joining them.

I only need audio, no video calls, no file transfers.

ETA: what free droid apps can do simply that, not needing for me to provide a phone number or my current location / country?

@fdroidorg @fdroid l felt the urge to take this up with you. I'm from Vishal Bakhai's city. Now, a very tyrannical point number 13 exists in the TOS of the forum. It looks absolutely fine with a corporate, but it violates the spirit of a community. I believe that l've been done an injustice. I've always looked upon f-droid as an ally, but the forum team has treated me with great disdain.

@gadgetbridge @fdroid what's going on here? A new Gadgetbridge app in the fdroid store, from "zoop"?
Looks pretty strange to me.

Peace be with you, F-Droid Community. 🌹

As many probably know, Google will block Android starting 2027.

Here is my hope: Google has shot itself in the foot with this Darth Vader move, because many People who loves privacy will now switch to de-googled systems, because ( Since to my knowledge), the blockade won't affect those systems.

So this is just my Openion and my HOPE.

What's your take on this?

And I kindly say to all developers: Please don't register in Google.

There are so many people using de-googled systems now, including myself. Please keep going for us, and four you too. Please

Best wishes from Germany 🌹

Why is there an @fdroidorg and an @fdroid account? It seems a bit confusing to find the official one. Especially as both have the same logo and both have a lot of followers. The former seems to be the official one, though, according to website verification.

Hi!

I had an issue while installing an app through fdroid, so I shut fdroid down because the install process was going on and never ending after several minutes, but know I can't install the app from fdroid nor from the direct apk file.

I suspect there's a file stored somewhere, creating a conflict and preventing me from installing the app that I need, but i can't access the directory where apps from fdroid are stores unless I root my device, which I don't feel comfortable doing.

Has anyone had the same issue? What are my options?

Also I'm running GrapheneOS.

Thank you for your help,

My article today is an interview DocWolle about his work as an #Android developer, the challenges facing #FDroid, and why maintaining an open Android ecosystem has become increasingly important

We discuss Google's impact on alternative app distribution, privacy-respecting software, #opensource #development, and the future of F-Droid. I hope you enjoy the interview

This is the third in my little series of @fdroid articles this last week, I hope you love it!

https://gardinerbryant.com/f-droid-and-the-future-of-open-source/

Okay, this stinks more.

Android developer verification: Building a safer ecosystem together

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/06/android-developer-verification.html

com.google.android.verifier
https://support.google.com/android/answer/17065026

@fdroidorg @fdroid

#fdroid #developerverification #fooglesucks #oemstores