This Week in F-Droid
TWIF curated on Thursday, 26 Dec 2024, Week 52
Community News
Will you be at the 38-th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg between 27–30 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 “Android calls integration” 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 they’re 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. We’ve 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 we’re updated at the same time, so we hope there’s a way forward for Mull too and we’re 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
- (I)improvised (E)xplosive (D)evices: Imagine Minesweeper … but in 3D
- Calorimeter: Track your calories!
- Cifras o letras: A simplified version of Countdown UK game-show
- FaFa Runner: Enjoy smooth gameplay, stunning graphics, and endless fun
- OnePlus Flash Control: OnePlus Flash Brightness control app
Updated Apps
104 more apps were updated
(expand for the full list)
- 2048 Open Fun Game was updated to
1.15.0 - AndBible: Bible Study was updated to
5.0.834 - Andor’s Trail was updated to
0.8.12.1 - AndStatus was updated to
62.03 - ArcaneChat was updated to
1.50.4 - baresip was updated to
63.0.0 - baresip+ was updated to
50.0.0 - Bitcoin Wallet was updated to
10.21 - Bitcoin Wallet [testnet3] was updated to
10.21 - blichess was updated to
8.0.0+ble1.0.4 - Bookaccio Book Tracker was updated to
0.0.7 - Brume Wallet was updated to
0.6.535 - Cheogram was updated to
2.17.2-3+free - Ciyue was updated to
0.15.0 - Clipious was updated to
1.22.5 - Code Word was updated to
1.4.4 - ColorBlendr was updated to
v1.10.2 - croc was updated to
1.11.3 - Delta Chat was updated to
1.50.3 - Discreet Launcher was updated to
v7.7.0 - droidVNC-NG was updated to
2.8.0 - Easy Notes was updated to
1.4 - Emotic was updated to
0.1.3 - Exfilac was updated to
1.1.4 - FairEmail was updated to
1.2251 - Feeder was updated to
2.7.2 - Flexify was updated to
1.1.94 - Frigoligo was updated to
2.1.2 - Geo Share was updated to
2.0.0 - Geto was updated to
1.16.6 - GLPI Agent was updated to
1.6.1 - GraphHopper Maps was updated to
2.2.0 - Healthy Battery Charging was updated to
2.0.9 - Home Medkit was updated to
1.6.0 - IETF 121 was updated to
0.1.70 - Image Toolbox was updated to
3.1.1 - Imagepipe was updated to
0.71 - Immich was updated to
1.123.0 - Infomaniak kDrive was updated to
5.2.7 - Infomaniak Mail was updated to
1.6.9 - Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated to
Build101.0.0 - jtx Board journals|notes|tasks was updated to
2.09.04.ose - Just (Video) Player was updated to
0.180 - Karbon was updated to
2.9.0 - kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to
1.0.0-alpha.14 - Kotatsu was updated to
7.7.2 - Ladefuchs was updated to
3.1.8 - LinkDroid for Linkwarden was updated to
2.0.0 - Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to
2.2.3-rc.1 - Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to
1.1.22 - Magisk was updated to
28.1 - Mattermost Beta was updated to
2.23.0 - Mill was updated to
5.8.2 - MoeMemos was updated to
0.8.3 - MusicSearch was updated to
1.9.0-beta.6 - My Expenses was updated to
3.9.2 - NanoLedger was updated to
1.0.0 - NeoStumbler was updated to
1.4.2 - Nextcloud Dev was updated to
20241218 - NoNonsense Notes was updated to
7.2.0 - Offi was updated to
13.0.8 - Open Food Facts was updated to
4.17.1 - OpenBible was updated to
1.4.2 - openScale was updated to
2.5.3 - Orion Viewer – Pdf & Djvu was updated to
0.95.3 - Pagan was updated to
1.6.3 - Password Generator was updated to
1.8.3 - Password Master was updated to
1.4.1 - Phocid was updated to
20241217 - PicGuard was updated to
1.0.8 - Pie Launcher was updated to
1.22.0 - PiliPala was updated to
1.0.25 - PipePipe was updated to
4.0.2 - Podcini.R – Podcast instrument was updated to
6.15.11 - PPSSPP was updated to
1.18.1 - ProseReader was updated to
1.0.1 - ProtonVPN – Secure and Free VPN was updated to
5.8.15.0 - Qalculate! was updated to
0.1.2 - RailTrip was updated to
1.5.5 - Retro Music was updated to
6.2.1 - RootlessJamesDSP was updated to
1.6.12 - Sapio was updated to
1.6.2 - SchildiChat Next was updated to
0.7.5.sc18 - Session was updated to
1.20.8 - Simple Keyboard was updated to
5.22 - SimpleX Chat was updated to
6.2.1 - Solon was updated to
2.2 - Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to
2.2.6 - Symphony was updated to
2024.12.115 - Syncthing-Fork was updated to
1.28.1.1 - Terminal Emulator was updated to
5.3.0/X - Timed Shutdown [No Root] was updated to
v2.85 - Todo Agenda was updated to
4.10.2 - TourCount was updated to
3.6.0 - TrackerControl was updated to
2024.12.15-fdroid - TransektCount was updated to
4.2.0 - Tuta Mail was updated to
259.241217.0 - Unciv was updated to
4.14.16 - Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to
0.41.1 - Valentin’s PowerTools #016 – Tomato Potato Clock was updated to
1.0.2 - Voyager for Lemmy was updated to
2.21.0 - XiVPN was updated to
1.1.2 - Xray was updated to
8.2.0 - Xtra was updated to
2.40.2
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