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F-Droid 2.0

F-Droid 2.0

daveoc64

Comments (105)

  • silverbluep
    I have been using droid-ify on GrapheneOS for a few years now; because F-Droid ui is terrible, and the privilege extention has been such a pain to configure and get working without issues on my previous lineageOS phone. Happy to see this major overhaul; and i'm glad the FPE is being phased out.
  • jjice
    What does the future of something like F-Droid look like once Google does their lock down next year?
  • temphaaa
    Can someone recommend a good F/OSS ebook reader on F-Droid? The existing ones I have tested have too many knobs and options and are not really user-friendly.... My wife started to get into reading, but I could not get her to get out of the Kindle/Play Books ecosystem because of the user-friendliness and easy synchronisation across devices that Kindle gives.
  • rom1v
    In addition to F-Droid on the device, I'd love an F-Droid "package manager client" on a computer, that allows installing apps on an Android device via adb: # update repo lists fdr update # upgrade all apps on the connected device fdr upgrade # search packages fdr search vlc # lists org.videolan.vlc # install on the device fdr install org.mozilla.firefox # download the apk fdr download org.mozilla.firefox # uninstall fdr uninstall org.mozilla.firefox Of course, all operations would verify the signatures first.
  • aorth
    Cool! Unfortunately I switched to Obtanium a year or so ago. I get all my apps from GitHub releases straight from the developers now.
  • outadoc
    Very cool, the visual redesign was very much needed and I had been using Droid-ify for a while because of this. I'll switch back to the official app, congrats to the contributors!
  • Scene_Cast2
    The official page still downloads 1.23.2. I wonder when this will go live, and if the old app will auto-update.
  • parisiansam
    I wonder if FDroid has a policy against LLM? i was reading one of the MR here https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/merge_requests/1729 and they seem to gate on LLM contributions (and vibe coded android app)?
  • aargh_aargh
  • juiceland
    For people who are die-hard F Droid users, do you get all your apps from it? I have tried in the past but it seemed like even when I restricted my use to basics it was missing things I needed to make my phone feel useful. Wonder if it has gotten better.
  • prima-facie
    Amazing news! I mainly use the F-droid Basic version which does automatic updating of apps. The regular one needs user confirmation for updates if I remember correctly.
  • 97laos
    Love it new design fdroid basic really smooth in my ancient phone.
  • mzajc
    > Also, F-Droid Privileged Extension (FPE) is not currently supported by 2.0. That means even if FPE is installed, F-Droid 2.0 won’t use it. This overhaul focused on full featured support for the Android “session” installer. That lets F-Droid run background updates on any recent Android version without requiring FPE. Like with any of the changes here, we welcome feedback.This is a shame. Is the privileged extension a large maintenance burden?
  • kmarc
    Great visual and usability update.Even greater HN conversation about all the to-me-unknown alternatives. I used neostore as a replacement, but maybe time to try f-Droid again
  • mightysashiman
    Did they implement any GrapheneOS security complaints for it to be deemed actually secure?
  • Thev00d00
    Urgh such a shame to be written by LLM
  • zephiel7
    This is very good to see. Classic F-Droid always seemed to fail at updating repos at least every week or so.
  • cf100clunk
    That page uses the term ''repository''' singular. Can additional repos be added in the way Neo Store allows?
  • magnat
    And still no popularity rating, download count or any user review system whatsoever.
  • sharktheone
    so nice. FDroid always looked a bit dated to me
  • renszarv
    If only they improve the AndroidTV experience a bit
  • cyberax
    Dear F-Droud, please stop redirecting me to the Mandarin version automatically without an option to read the original message. Just because I have a Chinese keyboard layout available.
  • imzadi
    I wish they would add ratings or even just comments
  • Telaneo
    It's nice to see F-Droid going places.
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  • laruss5
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  • zb3
    > All new code in this effort uses modern Android code standards and designs. This gives us a codebase that is easier to maintain, test, and easier to extend with new features in the future.No, this increases the overall complexity of the system. Android will hopefully eventually collapse under its own weight.