#Catima 2.34.5 is out!

This is a maintenance release that targets Android 15 and fixes a crash.

The app will look slightly uglier on some devices, due to Google's changes in how drawing over the system and navigation bar works. Sadly, supporting proper edge-to-edge requires extensive rewrites (help very welcome!), so I opted to at least ensure we target Android 15 before any deadlines.

Coming soon to an app store near you.

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#IzzyOnDroid #Fdroid #GitHub #GooglePlay

Release 2.34.5 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Target Android 15 Fix crash reading unsupported pkpass files Improve pkpass support

^GitHub

To #FDroid users, you might use #NTFY for having push notifications.

If you are rate-limited or want to test un another distributor, you can use #Sunup

It is an UnifiedPush distributor using Mozilla's push server. It is very easy to use.

f-droid.org/en/packages/org.un…

Source code: codeberg.org/Sunup/android

android

^Codeberg.org

We are excited to announce that F-Droid has been awarded a grant from #OpenTechFund designed to support FOSS projects in addressing long-term sustainability challenges.

More details: f-droid.org/2025/02/05/f-droid… #FDroid #FOSS #Sustainability

F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Grant | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

We are excited to announce that F-Droid has been awarded $396,044 from theOpen Technology Fund’s FOSS SustainabilityFund.This grant is specifically designed ...

^f-droid.org

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:

- F-Droid Client & Basic 1.22.0 are out (dare to update!)
- #webxdc is spreading its tentacles
- #dolphinemulator has a huge update
- #newpipe brings one fix, one still missing
- Catshare unifies device-to-device sharing

All these and news about 154 more apps at f-droid.org/2025/01/30/twif.ht…

Refresh your home-screen | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-DroidTWIF curated on Thursday, 30 Jan 2025, Week 5F-Droid coreF-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.22.0 stable, but not yet ‘suggested’...

^f-droid.org

While I appreciate bringing up the security concerns the existence of alternatives to #FDroid I do not think we have those when it comes to pure FOSS apps without the usual big corporate trackers/libs. #Accrescent lists a few apps and fails to provide relevant information about them (such as requested permissions). E.g. #Qlango includes multiple tracking libraries by #Meta / #Facebook and doesn't look like it is FOSS to any degree. Even while the #FDroid repo is not carefully curated I don't run into traps like these. 🤷

There is a need for a curated and maintained FOSS app repo and currently there is nobody but @fdroidorg providing it. #Obtainium, #Accrescent are mostly option for expert users who exactly know who to trust and what they are looking for. @Kulei @newhinton

After a lot of work, we're happy to announce the #PeerTube Android application is available on #fdroid 🎉

f-droid.org/packages/org.frama…

PeerTube | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Federated video platform

^f-droid.org

btw, I am also in the process of publishing #ArcaneChat in Google Play, and setup a website for it at arcanechat.me

(for the people that don't have #fdroid since otherwise it also increases the obstacles in migrating, and ofc it is fully compatible with #DeltaChat so it is fine if some people use Delta Chat and others ArcaneChat

@thekitmalone @devSJR

ArcaneChat

Private chats for the family

^{arcanechat.me}

Die Signatur-Problematik bei F-Droid ist offenbar noch immer nicht gelöst: "We find it concerning that F-Droid constantly chooses to move the goalposts and continues to rely on a fundamentally broken approach for certificate pinning, merely patching [15] known vulnerabilities without ever addressing the underlying cause." 😵👇

github.com/obfusk/fdroid-fakes…

#fdroid #security #privacy #certpinning #signature

GitHub - obfusk/fdroid-fakesigner-poc: F-Droid Fake Signer PoC

F-Droid Fake Signer PoC. Contribute to obfusk/fdroid-fakesigner-poc development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

My mother-in-law set up the #Nextcloud app to back up photos from her #Android phone. However, no photos were uploaded. I thought she did something wrong, but in fact it was set up correctly, including all permissions. But nothing was even queued for upload. I couldn't make it work either.

I got a recommendation for #FolderSync, but it's freemium and it felt fishy with all the data consent dialogs. Then I went to #FDroid and discovered #RoundSync and wow, it's a great piece of software, clean, lean and does reliably what I want it to do. The sad fact is that @newhinton, app developer, gets 3€/month for it on Liberapay. We really need to get more money into open source apps.

#catima 2.34.4 is out!

This reverts Catima to targetSdk 34 (Android 14) for now, to fix the UI regressions introduced in Catima 2.34.3.

It also includes the fixes in 2.34.3 and a new little feature to sort your cards by the "valid from" date, useful for things like train tickets.

Coming soon to an app store near you!

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#IzzyOnDroid #GitHub #FDroid #GooglePlay

Release 2.34.4 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Ability to sort cards by start of validity Temporarily revert to targeting Android 14 to fix some UI issues

^GitHub

This week in #FDroid (TWIF):

- We will remove the "gentle update" from F-Droid 1.22.0-alpha, as it is not stable enough. Thank you for testing (and finding bugs)!
- there is a new article on how to replace most common apps with open source versions
- Fossify Paint was added
- we recommend to switch from Mull to Fennec (as Mull has stopped development)
- OpenTracks is now available as reproducible and non-reproducible variant
- Exclave, a SagerNet fork was added

f-droid.org/2025/01/09/twif.ht…

Gentle updates postponed | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-DroidTWIF curated on Thursday, 09 Jan 2025, Week 2F-Droid coreHow is the new Client 1.22.0-alpha0 update working for you? Did you notice any u...

^f-droid.org

We are heading towards completion of another milestone 😃

Thanks to @VishnuSanal, #Prav is on Google Play Store now. It requires a 2-week testing period before being open to public downloads. Right now, only authorized testers can test it.

If you are interested in testing, please share your Gmail address with us.

On the other hand, the app is free to download from #Fdroid. Please remember that the service is still in public beta.

Stay tuned!

#XMPP #privacy #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

@IzzyOnDroid
Gerade festgestellt, dass seit wenigen Tagen @cryptomator neu im #IzzySoftRepo vorhanden ist.

Warum ist es mit 25MB so viel größer, als im #fdroidrepo (16MB)?

Andere Apps werden im #fdroid einmal, aber mit verschiedenen #Repo als alternative aufgeführt. Der #Cryptomator wird jedoch für jedes #Repositorium separat aufgeführt. Warum?

Im #fdroidstore wird auf eine notwendige Lizenz hingewiesen. Bei #IzzySoft jedoch nicht. Dort nicht notwendig?

Happy holidays to all who celebrate them!

I just released a minor Catima bugfix release: 2.34.2. This version fixes the archived/starred status being hard to see or even invisible when displayed on top of certain card images.

Coming soon to an app store near you :)

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#Catima #GitHub #IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GooglePlay

Release 2.34.2 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Improve archive/starred icon display

^GitHub

⚠️ 🚨 It’s time to stop using Blabber.im 🚨⚠️

The abandoned fork of #Conversations_im has a critical security issue: attackers can bypass STARTTLS negotiation, resulting in an unencrypted connection to a fake server. This vulnerability is similar to the STARTLS attack discovered in various email clients¹

✅ Fixed in Conversations 2.13.1 (Feb 2024)

📢 Please migrate to Conversations immediately! It's free on Google Play until the end of the year and always free on #fdroid

¹: archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedu…

FOSDEM 2024 - [Protocols] Security of STARTTLS in the E-Mail Context

^{archive.fosdem.org}

This is also free from trackers!
reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/…

And you can get it on #fdroid too!
f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.sia…
#Conversations_im

Conversations | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Encrypted, easy-to-use XMPP instant messenger for your mobile device

^f-droid.org

#Catima 2.34.1 is out!

This fixes a minor bug in Catima 2.34.0 where selecting an "invalid" pkpass file (corrupted/not actually pkpass) after choosing to open from Pkpass would cause the app to crash. Now, you just get a little message stating the file could not be read instead.

Coming soon to an app store near you.

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…
catima.app

#IzzyOnDroid #GitHub #FDroid #GooglePlay

Release 2.34.1 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Fix crash when opening invalid pkpass files

^GitHub

#Catima 2.34.0 is out!

This release adds support for #Passbook (#pkpass) files, commonly used for event tickets and more!

It also contains some other minor fixes and better handling of image thumbnails (especially transparent ones).

On the end-user side, this release probably doesn't look that different, but it contains some major code refactoring. It is also the first release with #Kotlin code in it.

catima.app/

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay

Release 2.34.0 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Add Passbook (.pkpass) support Fix import of transparent PDF files Improve display of transparent thumbnails

^GitHub

Thanks for all your patience, @fdroidorg users! Thunderbird for Android is now available on F-Droid - download away!

#Thunderbird #ThunderbirdforAndroid #fdroid #OpenSource

f-droid.org/packages/net.thund…

Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Thunderbird is a 100% open source, privacy focused email app.

^f-droid.org

What? Release of this #opensource software on a proprietary platform first?! (Google).

You can do better than that!

#opensource #linux #fdroid #google #android

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is a lot to read, and also we missed the toot about last week.

In short:
- F-Droid client 1.21 was released, but you should wait for 1.21.1 before you update
- there were some bugs in DAVx⁵, Nextcloud and Tailscale, so be careful in updating these too
- we're working together with @Codeberg to get our builds from apps hosted there working again
- any much more

Read the full details at
f-droid.org/2024/10/24/twif.ht… and f-droid.org/de/2024/10/17/twif…

This Week Is on Fire | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-DroidTWIF curated on Wednesday, 23 Oct 2024, Week 43F-Droid coreJust after the last TWIF was published we thought it will be just another nice...

^f-droid.org

🎉 PSA: F-Droid users! 🎉 The Tuta Calendar app is now available on F-Droid 🥳

❤️ You can get the Tuta Calendar app here: f-droid.org/en/packages/de.tut…

#Fdroid #Tutacalendar #Tuta #Download #Encryption

What about #fdroid ?

#thunderbird
#k9mail

#Repology only has marginal support for F-Droid, only seeing a few handpicked packages for software which is also available in Linux:

repology.org/projects/?inrepo=…

I've recently had a few PRs which improve F-Droid support and add #IzzyOnDroid, allowing full-fledged version comparison within Android ecosystem.

I wonder if any #fdroid maintainers or @IzzyOnDroid would be interested in that.

Pixelfed for Android (v1.0.0.70) is now available via our F-Droid repo!

Our Google Play build is pending approval, and is expected to be available within the next 24 hours.

fdroid.pixelfed.net/fdroid/rep…

#pixelfed #fdroid

ArcaneChat (previously known as #DeltaLab) an alternative Delta Chat client for #Android is now available in official F-Droid store!

If you already have it you can securely continue to upgrade it now from F-Droid (or #IzzyOnDroid) thanks to #ReproducibleBuilds which ensures the apk matches the source code and not me nor F-Droid is manipulating the binary 🎉

f-droid.org/en/packages/chat.d…

#encryption #decentralization #anonymous #email #ArcaneChat #DeltaChat #fdroid

If you think about participating on this year's #Hacktoberfest you might wish to visit Droidtoberfest:

droidtoberfest.sylviavanos.nl/

@SylvieLorxu wrote up a nice webpage listing up which apps from #IzzyOnDroid and #FDroid are participating and welcome your contributions

This is what hides Organic Maps from F-Droid search by default?
Really?
A hotel widget to fucking kayak dot com and... the download server for maps? Yikes.

That sucks, F-Droid. Arguably the kayak.com thing is funny, yes, but... The maps CDN? :(

#OrganicMaps #FDroid

Indeed, the release came on Wednesday🎉

It seems now I am only waiting for @fdroidorg …

#tusky #fdroid

#Patienteninfo

Viele meiner Patientinnen notieren ihren Zyklus im Kalender. Manche benutzen auch Apps.

Falls ich dafür auch eine App benutzen wollt, empfehle ich euch dringend keine aus dem GooglePlayStore, denn die enthalten alle Tracker und sind unzuverlässig. Außerdem wollen wir unsere intimen Gesundheitsdaten nicht durch die Welt posaunen.

Also, falls ich eine App dazu benutzen möchtet, kann ich "Drip" aus dem F-Droid Store empfehlen.
Projektseite:
prototypefund.de/project/drip/

F-Droid Store:
f-droid.org/de/packages/com.dr…

Drip bei Mastodon:
@dripapp

P.S. Falls ihr generelle Fragen zum F-Droid Store habt:
mobilsicher.de/ratgeber/so-ins…
Oder mich fragen.

#frauen #periode #zyklus #menstruation #fdroid #dripapp

F-Droid: So installieren Sie den App-Store (Android)

Sie möchten F-Droid ausprobieren? Wir zeigen in einer Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung mit Screenshots, wie man den App-Store herunterlädt und auf dem Smartphone einrichtet.

^{Inga Pöting (mobilsicher.de)}

Dear @IzzyOnDroid , I have seen this many times since I started using #fdroid (..and your #repo).

At the screenshot you see an app last updated 7 years ago and a note stating that IT SEEMS to be no longer maintained. For me, its abandoned and unless you have metrics that show active users, why bother keeping the app at all?

🇬🇧 Finally we're live with a new set of features! More than 18% of the apps at IzzyOnDroid already have Reproducible Builds – that's more than 1 out of 6, and more will follow. Two wonderful clients will make this and more transparent for you soon. Read about all the exciting news in this article: android.izzysoft.de/articles/n…

All this was made possible thanks to the help of @obfusk – and her github.com/obfusk/rbtlog

#IzzyOnDroid #reproducibleBuilds #FDroid #transparency

Reproducible Builds, special client support and more in our repo

Exciting news at the IzzyOnDroid repo! Now we have Reproducible Builds, specific support by some of the most popular F-Droid clients, and more!

^IzzyOnDroid

🇩🇪 Schluss mit der Rumeierei – jetzt ist es Live! mehr als 18% der Apps bei IzzyOnDroid verfügen bereits über Reproducible Builds (also mehr als jedes 6. Ei – oops, jede 6. App; mehr folgen). Zwei wundervolle Clients werden Euch dies und weiteres transparent machen. Das & weitere spannende News könnt ihr hier nachlesen: android.izzysoft.de/articles/n…

All dies war nur möglich Dank der Hilfe von @obfusk – und ihrem github.com/obfusk/rbtlog

#IzzyOnDroid #reproducibleBuilds #FDroid #transparency

Reproducible Builds, besondere Client-Unterstützung und mehr in unserem Repo

Spannende Neuigkeiten im IzzyOnDroid Repo: Jetzt haben wir reproduzierbare Builds, spezifische Unterstützung durch einige der beliebtesten F-Droid-Clients und mehr!

^IzzyOnDroid

#NewPipe 0.27.2 is out now!

This version fixes the recent issues with YouTube and Bandcamp. Support for on.soundcloud.com URLs was also added.

The new version is available through our #FDroid repo (newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/inst…) and should be shipped with F-Droid's main repo in the next days. The in-app updater should offer the update within one hour.

Add the NewPipe repository to F-Droid

^NewPipe

🚗 Passando a utilizar este aplicativo para gerenciar despesas do automóvel com a tornozeleira eletrônica de bolso #Android: Autu Mandu é #SoftwareLivre (licença Apache 2.0) e está disponível, entre outros, no repositório do @IzzyOnDroid para #FDroid.

github.com/juanro49/autu-mandu

Vamos ver como se sai, mas parece ótimo. Usei por muitos anos outros privativos de liberdade, então aproveito para iniciar a gestão de novo veículo finalmente dando basta nessa privação.

Mais alguém o conhece?

Hey @fdroidorg, how about we replace the "Non-Free Network Services" flag with two more specific Anti-Feature flags; "Non-Changeable Network Services" and "Proprietary Network Services";

forum.f-droid.org/t/propsosal-…

#SoftwareFreedom #Android #FDroid #AntiFeatures #NetworkServices

Propsosal: Split "Non-Free Network Services" into separate flags for changeability and code license

I’d like to propose splitting the “Non-Free Network Services” flag into two separate Anti-feature flags; “Non-Changeable Network Services” and “Proprietary Network Services”.

^{F-Droid Forum}