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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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#AnySoftKeyboard, installed from #FDroid, asks for access to Contacts. Was it compromised? (EDIT: Unlikely) (mastodon.nzoss.nz)
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#AnySoftKeyboard, installed from #FDroid, asks for access to Contacts. Was it compromised? (EDIT: Unlikely)

I don't remember it asking me for Contacts before (but @lnxw37a2 does). [EDIT: I was] worried it may have been subject to a supply chain attack, and to be on the safe side, I uninstalled it.

It seems to be a mostly unmaintained app that I never use, but hadn't uninstalled. This is the first new version since 2025/07/25, and before that, 2022/01/14 (the first version shipped by @fdroid).

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[–] plm00@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's not my preferred keyboard, so I haven't used it in a while. But as I remember, it was abandoned for a little while, and then there was a beta branch that was in development for some time. It's had somewhat regular development, so maybe this is its first official release in a while. While it is off-putting that it asks for contact access right away, I suspect that is so that contact names can be included in your word suggestions. It's a fairly common keyboard feature.