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goodbyekitty83
dude, i was just thinking about what i had gotten to install some cool apps from and couldn't remember it........then your post shows up and BAM . i got some of my shit back! talk about luck. so thanks for posting this when you did. was about to go crazy. love your app.
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MrNathanman
What is your favorite app currently on F-droid?
pserwylo
Easy. Meme Creator.
I also use KeepScore quite a lot for card/board game scoring, and Flym for RSS.
They are three very basic, very targeted (does one thing and does it well), very polished open source apps, which work exactly as you'd expect them to work.
Then of course, there all the big players building complex and awesome software, that I have an enormous amount of respect for:
- OsmAnd
- Fennec/Firefox
- k9mail
- etc, etc.
pseudopseudonym
You're not OP! ;)
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deki
What are the next big/interesting features coming to F-Droid / what is currently being worked on?
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pserwylo
To build on this:
- Make the search work like every other Android app (i.e. filter the main list of apps, don't have another "Search results" screen, and make the search instantly update the list as you type).
- Swapping apps with other users in your vicinity using Bluetooth and local WiFi AP (currently only over wifi)
We've also recently seen a lot of smaller contributions from the community, which slowly but surely makes the app more useable. I look forward to seeing what else they have to contribute into the future.
sir_fancypants
Big fan of F-Droid, but I would love to see an "Update All" option.
pserwylo
While this hasn't been worked on in the past, I think I can finally see a pathway to get there in small incremental steps (see this comment).
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I just want to say thanks for fdroid, and thanks for your hard work
Fdroid rocks!
guntermunder
I want to thank all the F-Droid developers and contributors for all their hard work.
Thanks for helping me discover great open source apps like:
- Redreader, a great ad-free Reddit reader
- AdAway, OS level ad blocker
- AFwall+, a firewall for Android
- AntennaPod, a Podcast manager
- Osmand, a mapping app with offline map support
- Plumble, voice chat for Mumble
This is probably a weird thing to say on /r/android but I love the fact F-Droid gives me the choice to have an open source focused phone (obvious caveat of drivers etc) free of Google/Play services if I want it.
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wanderfound
RedReader, AntennaPod, Osmand, and Plumble are basically some of my most used apps. Everytime one of them updates via F-Droid I am reminded of how much work these people must be doing behind the scenes to offer such great products for free.
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wanderfound
Sadly I'm just a lowly product manager and sales analyst. I feel so useless!
xamar6
You can always donate funds to Open Source projects that you use.
Makes a lot of sense donating to them to keep them alive with the guarantee that if discontinued someone else could continue the work.
Don't take Open Source for granted, it requires effort, time and passion. A little monetary help is always well received.
There you are, just donated to F-Droid! :) Other projects that I can't live without and donated are OSMAND, XPrivacy, Firefox, Freenet Project, Tiny RSS (though this guy ended up developing updates without releasing the sources :( )
UberLaggyDarwin
Do you run a custom ROM?
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UberLaggyDarwin
Awesome. I'm a CyanogenMod device maintainer guy for about 6 or 7 devices ;) so I was hoping you were going to say CM :)
I completely agree with you regarding Replicant. :)
jreamk2010
what are some flaws that you are trying to fix?
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pserwylo
There is also some work being done so that you don't need to sit and watch a dialog box while an app is downloading. Rather, it will show download progress embedded in the app details screen.
While this may sound like a minor improvement, my hope is that this will lead to the ability to:
- View one app
- Click "Install" and have it start downloading
- Navigate to another app
- Click "Install" and have that start downloading too
There are some UI problems with this which need some thinking through (when it is finished downloading, should it automatically pop up the installation dialog no matter where you currently are? probably not). But I think this will be a big improvement.
If that gets done, then it should also be a huge step towards bulk install, which is a highly sought after feature. But these things all take time.
Nakotadinzeo
Why not create the index on the server and push it as a single file?
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Nakotadinzeo
I was just thinking of how (i think) deb repositories operate, a single file is downloaded per server with it's full contents instead of scanning for them. the files are just merged on the devices for a full listing. Passing most of the processing to the server.
darthjoey91
Are there any kinds of apps that you believe F-Droid needs/needs more of?
I'm just asking because I've developed for F-Droid before, although that particular app needs some heavy optimizing.
darienswag420
- favorite repos not included in the default config?
- your favorite games besides on F-Droid besides Blockinger?
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darienswag420
Why the "besides Blockinger"? :)
because i've already wasted enough time at work playing with Tetris blocks! the app was the how i found out about F-Droid in the first place :)
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Hey again. What's the process of getting your apps in the repo? I run a little project where we are remaking the AOSP apps that got left behind in the jump to material design. We are moving pretty slowly but just for future reference. You can find out more at our google+ community. http://substance.cf/ (I know it looks shady but its easy to remember.)
adolfschlosss
Hope it's not too late. What about changelog for updated apps?
pserwylo
/u/mvdan has actually just recently added support for this to fdroidserver, so that the build recipes for apps can include a URL to their changelog. I believe this will be available in the next stable release, as a button which takes you to that URL when viewing the details of the apps who have a changelog entry in their build recipe.
dinodingo
Any ideas of how to fix the issue with no api keys in the future?
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How would you explain the app sharing functionality of F-Droid (Or F-Droid itself for that matter) to a non-technical friend?
pserwylo
There are two ways, the first which may sound far fetched, but is one of the driving reasons behind the existence of the feature:
To a friend who is interested in civil liberties but is non-technical:
Consider a country where the government has the authority to shut down access to certain websites they don't like, or indeed try to shut down the entire internet as was the case during the Arab spring. In this place, it is quite possible that access to the Google Play store would be restricted. In such a case, there may be an increase of people willing to find alternative ways to get apps, such as F-Droid. If it got to the point where such a government was concerned about F-Droid too, then they could block access to https://f-droid.org too. App swapping is a way to distribute apps locally, without the need for an internet connection, and ensuring that censorship does not prevent access to important things such as apps that allow anonymity and privacy.
Anybody else:
Consider somebody on a data connection with limited bandwidth and it costs a lot of money to download new apps. If their friend has already downloaded an app that they want, they can get it for zero bandwidth costs directly from their device, rather than having to download it from the internet. This will likely be faster too, because it may take some time to download, e.g. 50MiB for LibreOffice Viewer, whereas it may take a matter of seconds to download over local WiFi from another device.
Another use case for the average user is to setup a new device they've bought with all the apps they had on their old device. While we don't currently support bulk update, you can still "swap" all your apps one by one from the old device to the new device, and it is faster and perhaps easier (because you don't need to search for each app in the F-Droid repository) than getting them directly from the internet.
I and some others are actively working on making this feature better, including swapping over Bluetooth, and making the UI a bit nicer and hopefully easier to follow.
Would be keen to know if you have used it before, and what you have used it for.
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Thanks for your responce!
Would be keen to know if you have used it before, and what you have used it for.
Unfortunately I live in a rural area, with nobody to to test it with. I've used F Droid for a while as a way of getting FOSS apps though. Swapping my apps to a new device with it is a really slick idea though, might even be a killer app heh for me now.
_pelya
So you just make a build script for your app and submit it to your repo? I think I have few apps to submit.
What are your build server limits? My apps use around 2-3 Gb of space when compiling.
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_pelya
I've tried updating your build script for OpenTTD, and fdroid complains about prebuilt libraries in the repository.
Will it get accepted if it compiles with --no-check switch?
Replacing precompiled libraries with a proper build scripts is a long-term TODO, however NDK does not allow custom shell scripts to build something, so I'll need to invent more hacks.
What about Google Play Games integration, for cloud saves and stuff? Do you have your own API key for Play Games?
SnaKeZ83
Thanks to F-Droid team, and thank you Daniel for the reply on issue about downloads count.
I hope my work (that uses the F-Droid repo):
will help us to spread open source applications around the world.
souldrone
I just want to say thank you. F-Droid is an excellent project.
danhakimi
So, F-Droid is sort of a double-layer of Freedom. F-Droid itself is Free, and only serves Free apps. Do you have any interest in, or do you think there should be, a Free store for nonfree apps, to compete with Google Play? I guess any old schmuck could just fork F-Droid...
Thank you!
pserwylo
No need to fork.
Instead, the way you do this is to create your own repository that people can configure F-Droid to download apps from. That way, the list of apps in the F-Droid app will have both apps from https://f-droid.org, and from your own repository.
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eighthave
Here is the HOWTO: https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Setup_an_FDroid_App_Repo
If you need help, just post questions on our forums: https://f-droid.org/forums
Or ask in IRC: https://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&channels=%23fdroid
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When will we get true material design? nudge nudge
nitiger
I don't have a question but thank you for being a part of the open source community.
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Starks
Please allow proprietary and closed-source apps.
I don't want to keep relying on Aptoide.
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deki 20 points · Jul 2015
Have you considered something like screenshots.debian.net, where users can contribute screenshots?