Notices by F-Droid (fdroidorg@mastodon.technology)

There's some crazy internal US politics right now that threatens #OpenTechFund, who funded #LetsEncrypt, #CertBot, @torproject , #NoScript, TLS ESNI/ECH, #DNSPrivacyProj, #ReproducibleBuilds, #Wireguard, #DeltaChat, #OpenKeychain, #pypi, @guardianproject , @signalapp , and more. Looks like a couple proprietary software companies are trying to take over this #FreeSoftware money. Please sign on to the campaign to try to stop it: https://saveinternetfreedom.tech

It seems that Google wants to make using app bundles a requirement for new apps on Google Play in 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=320&v=cMr-b660Esw

This would mean developers have to upload their signing keys to google play even though there's no technical benefit in doing that. You can achieve the same efficient download sizes by using bundletool locally and uploading all generated apks. But it seems google will stop allowing that and just wants your signing keys.

The German Corona Warn App went live today. F-Droid cannot distribute the app for multiple reasons:

1) The core bluetooth contact tracing functionality is only implemented in Google play services and requires proprietary client libs to be included in the app.
2) The google api mentioned above is only available for use by apps which are whitelisted by google and distributed through the play store.

An anonymous contributor just donated $370 to us via opencollective! 🎉 Thanks, whoever that was 🙂 .

We received $10.000 funding in our collective (https://opencollective.com/f-droid) from the Mozilla Open Source Support Program (MOSS) speed dating event that happened during #FOSDEM.

These funds will be used for making the f-droid build process work faster and more reliably.

Dear @Google, please whitelist all apps from http://f-droid.org or show us a single example of malware included in F-Droid.

https://www.blog.google/products/android/new-malware-protections-advanced-protection-users/

We're looking to map out all technical details for how #Android apps are #tracking people, if you have ideas or more info, please submit them to our issue tracker! https://gitlab.com/trackingthetrackers/wiki/issues #TrackingTheTrackers

It you have a google account please help with reporting this as harmful and impersonating.

*DO NOT INSTALL* (except if you are a malware researcher 😉)

Fake F-Droid app, please report:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.source.managefile

If you are a developer of free Android software you might be interested in this job opportunity posted by the GNU Taler project: https://forum.f-droid.org/t/gnu-taler-looking-for-f-droid-hackers/8005

It's specifially targeting F-Droid :).

#foss #jobs #android #fdroid #gnu #taler

After a lot of combined effort by the F-Droid community and the jitsi team the #Jitsi Meet app is now finally available on F-Droid:

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.jitsi.meet/

🎉 🎉 🎉

We know that our server is sometimes overloaded. Therefore, try this link if the official website doesn't work for you: https://web.archive.org/web/20190717062201/https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html

We published a statement on our stance on neutrality of free software (and why we won't stay neutral in this case): https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html

We reached 6000 followers in the fediverse today! 🎉

Thanks for your support everyone! ❤️

(Meanwhile it's about 2000 on twitter 😃)

We just updated our Twitter crossposter and profile, inspired by https://mastodon.social/@paulakreuzer/102101427454657861

Posted this on Twitter:

> Some updates to our Twitter usage: We won't be crossposting any RT from @MastodonProject here anymore. We'll also delete old tweets occasionally. We won't read or reply to any messages here.

> For a better experience join us in the #Fediverse

Heads up to all #Riot users: with the recent attack on @matrix' infrastructure, it's possible that Riot's Google Play version got compromised. This doesn't affect Riot's F-Droid version. Just as Riot started to do now, F-Droid has always signed all its apps on an inaccessible, offline machine. For more information, see https://riot.im/reinstall

To avoid maintenance overhead, however, it's likely to happen that F-Droid users must also change the app in near future. Still, there's no need to act now.

@shevek Es verdad, hay muchas cosas para mejorar el buscador de la app. El issue más cerca es esto: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/issues/1293

Pero hay muchas más issues sobre el buscador: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/issues?label_name[]=search

Si sabes programar, ayuda está bienvenida!

F-Droid will soon have stricter requirements for apps showing up in the "Latest" tab in the F-Droid app:

https://news.f-droid.org/posts/2019-03-26-the-latest-tab-now-highlights-good-descriptions/

If you are an app developer consider adding good descriptions, screenshots and a "Whats's New" section for your app.

If you notice that your favourite app doesn't fulfill all these requirements consider notifying the app's developers or just help them with a merge request adding the missing info to the source repo.

From Zom's build metadata file (https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/metadata/im.zom.messenger.txt): the latest version requires proprietary dependencies which isn't allowed in F-Droid. Additionally, the goal is to include the original .apk signed by Zom's developers, but so far we weren't able to reproduce their .apk.

Help on bringing Zom into F-Droid is highly appreciated!

CC: @thoughtcrime @switchingsocial @mattlaff @skynebula @ajroach42