Happy new alpha!
This Week in F-Droid
TWIF curated on Thursday, 02 Jan 2025, Week 1
F-Droid core
We wish you a Happy New Year! and we bring the new F-Droid and F-Droid Basic 1.22.0-alpha0, which marks the start of another dev testing cycle.
What’s new? More polishing, bug fixing and pain points addressed:
- use “gentle update” API so apps don’t get killed while in use
- experimental support for un-archiving apps on Android 15
- separate share link and share file actions in app details (so you can share the link to the app page or the installed APK)
- clean internal caches more often to free up space (Thanks DerGenaue!)
- don’t update repos if they already have been updated in last 15sec
- re-order donation badges to match website (Thanks Leo!)
- show toast when APK has more permissions than expected (if your Android distro injects extra permissions, you’ll know)
- add settings toggle to prefer foreign mirrors
- verify hash of downloaded image resources and reject invalid ones
- don’t show apps with “bad” anti-features in category view
- don’t show error dialog for (un)installs when user actively aborted
- don’t update repos twice on fresh/clean app start
- auto fallback to other installer if priv-ext doesn’t have permissions
- reduce DB size by checkpointing more frequently (Thanks DerGenaue!)
- fix a crash when a repo removed
As usual we ask brave users to test this release and offer feedback as soon as possible. For example, “use ‘gentle update’ API so apps don’t get killed while in use” needs some attention, keep an eye on interactions with apps that keep a foreground service active, say like your email client or your messaging app, do they autoupdate as expected?
How to install this new alpha? In F-Droid Client, on its own page, either scroll down, expand Versions and install the latest, or in the upper right menu choose “Allow Beta updates”.
Community News
@codedoctor is a bit late here but wanted us to know that Linwood Butterfly 2.2.3 was released. It sounds like a small release but it’s one of the biggest quality of life updates.
Highlights:
🎨 More interface customization
💾 Save button indicator for autosave
🖊️ Laser tool improvements
📝 Template dialog improvements
🎨 Color wheel
🖼️ Render resolution
Full blog entry here.
Tailscale was updated to 1.78.1-t8903926f7-gfdc1e9ca4 after more than 2 months, as version 1.72.0 had some issues that we mentioned in TWIF 2024 week 43. Another good news is that the app might be swichable to build reproducible soon, if upstream agrees.
Newly Added Apps
3 apps were newly added
- Al-Azkar: Imam Al-Hafiz Yahya bin Sharafah Al-Din Al-Nawawi
- Flip 2 DND: Toggle Do Not Disturb mode by flipping your phone face down
- SimbaDroid: A simple SMB file server (needs root)
Updated Apps
94 more apps were updated
(expand for the full list)
- 2048 Open Fun Game was updated to
1.15.1 - Amber was updated to
3.0.5 - AntennaPod was updated to
3.6.0 - ArcaneChat was updated to
1.50.5 - Audio Share was updated to
0.3.1 - Aves Libre was updated to
1.12.0 - BusTO was updated to
2.3.1 - Caffeinate was updated to
2.1.0 - Camera Date Folders was updated to
1.4 - Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated to
21.2 - Chance was updated to
1.4.1 - Cirrus was updated to
3.7 - Ciyue was updated to
0.15.1 - Clauncher was updated to
v5.1.2 - Cuppa – Tea Timer was updated to
2.8.5 - Dog sports diary was updated to
1.0.11 - DPC was updated to
1.6.2 - EinkBro was updated to
14.2.0 - Element X – Secure Chat & Call was updated to
0.7.6 - Ente Auth was updated to
4.2.0 - Ente Photos – Open source, end-to-end encrypted al was updated to
0.9.72 - FaFa Runner was updated to
1.0.5 - FairEmail was updated to
1.2252 - Feeder was updated to
2.7.4 - Find my IP was updated to
v1.2.0 - Flexify was updated to
1.1.95 - Gauguin was updated to
0.33.0 - GPTMobile was updated to
0.6.2 - Green: Bitcoin Wallet was updated to
4.1.1 - Human Benchmark was updated to
1.0.8 - Ichaival was updated to
1.9.2 - Jami was updated to
20241216-01 - Journal was updated to
11.3 - KitchenOwl was updated to
0.6.7 - Kotatsu was updated to
7.7.4 - Kwik EFIS was updated to
6.25 - LibreOffice Viewer was updated to
24.8.4.2 - Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to
2.2.3-rc.2 - Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to
1.1.26 - Mattermost Beta was updated to
2.23.1 - Meshenger was updated to
4.4.1 - Mill was updated to
5.8.3 - Money Manager Ex was updated to
2024.12.19 - MusicSearch was updated to
1.10.0 - NewsBlur – News reader was updated to
13.3.3 - Nextcloud Dev was updated to
20241222 - Obtainium was updated to
1.1.37 - Odin was updated to
3.4.4 - Oinkoin was updated to
1.0.76 - OnePlus Flash Control was updated to
1.0.9 - OpenBible was updated to
1.5.0 - OpenTracks was updated to
v4.17.0 - Orgro was updated to
1.50.2 - Orgzly Revived was updated to
1.8.32 - OsmAnd~ was updated to
4.9.10 - Pagan was updated to
1.6.4 - Peristyle was updated to
v6.2.0 - Phocid was updated to
20241221 - PicGuard was updated to
1.0.9 - Podcini.R – Podcast instrument was updated to
6.16.4 - Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to
1.28.5 - PTO – Plaintext Organizer was updated to
3.3.0 - QRAlarm was updated to
2.3 - Quillpad was updated to
1.4.21 - Raccoon for Lemmy was updated to
1.13.4 - Ricochlime was updated to
1.11.4 - RiMusic was updated to
0.6.65 - Rosarium was updated to
Josue - RSSAid was updated to
3.0.4 - Satunes was updated to
2.5.2 - SD Maid 2/SE – System Cleaner was updated to
1.3.3-rc0 - Share Paste O2 was updated to
2024.12.20 - Shiori was updated to
1.50.20 - Simple Keyboard was updated to
5.23 - SiYuan was updated to
3.1.16 - Stendhal Game was updated to
1.48 - Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to
2.2.8 - Taler Wallet was updated to
0.14.1 - taz was updated to
1.10.1 - The One App was updated to
3.0.1 - Thor was updated to
1.7.1 - Todo List (PFA) was updated to
3.0.0 - Tournant was updated to
2.9.1 - Tower Collector was updated to
2.15.6 - Träwelldroid was updated to
2.17.3 - Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to
0.41.2 - UP-Example was updated to
2.0.0 - Valv was updated to
2.1.1 - Vespucci was updated to
20.2.1.0 - Voyager for Lemmy was updated to
2.22.0 - WhatSave was updated to
1.4.3 - Xray was updated to
8.3.0 - Xtra was updated to
2.40.4 - Yivi was updated to
7.5.7
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