This Week in F-Droid
TWIF curated on Thursday, 26 Dec 2024, Week 52
Will you be at the 38-th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg between 27â30 Dec 2024? If so, did you install the 38C3 Schedule and the c3nav Indoor navigation apps yet?
@thore proposed an F-Droid meetup at 38C3, so if you fancy a real human talk, add the FOSS Android App and F-Droid Community Meetup to your Day 2 TODO schedule!
Conversations and Quicksy were updated to 2.17.6+free polishing more of the UX about bubbles, avatars and reactions. While Audio and Video calls have been available since April 2020, recently the apps also got âAndroid calls integrationâ too. This makes an XMPP call behave like a normal phone call yielding useful features like: better Bluetooth integration and busy answer when you get called during an ongoing call. Not all Android versions support this, but newer ones do, so it all should be fine and dandy, right? Well, not quite. The integration was part of a larger code refactoring and the initial feedback was from plenty of devices, from many manufacturers, that⌠they stopped being able to call. Apparently this feature had a lot of bugs depending on the device and Android version, eg. tablets that advertised to have call integration or phones that did yet nothing worked. The developer started adding devices to an exception list with each new release making this an unwieldy endeavor. Latest version adds a toggle that allows users to just turn it off in case theyâre unlucky and their device is one of the broken ones. Forks like Cheogram and monocles chat should follow suit soon.
Not all news is fun to type. Weâve been advertising the good work that the Divest project does, not only on the custom Android distro that helps old devices still be up-to-date but also about their apps in F-Droid. December marks 10 years of DivestOS, and this December will be the end of the project unfortunately. We wish Tavi all the best and thank them for all the work done during all this time!
Mull and Fennec weâre updated at the same time, so we hope thereâs a way forward for Mull too and weâre tracking this in this issue. The rest of the apps might function by themselves or by having someone else host updated databases, we are tracking them in this issue.
@shuvashish76 fills the board:
LibreSudoku was updated to 2.0.0, with lots of changes. Major features include : Killer Sudoku, Backup & Restore.
Newly Added Apps
5 apps were newly added
Updated Apps
104 more apps were updated
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