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2025-08-01
News from the first half of 2025: RB work, Download Statistics, and more
Half a year has passed since our last blog post. You might be curious what we achieved since then – and we have not been idle! Be prepared for more reproducible builds, download statistics, and other nice things 😃 | |||
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2024-12-30
Review of 2024 and Outlook for 2025: Reproducible Builds, Security Measures and more
2024 waves goodbye, 2025 knocks at the door: what did we achieve in 2024, and what are our plans and hopes for 2025? Join us to take a look back at security measures established, at progress with Reproducible Builds – and for a look ahead of what might come next! | |||
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2024-08-01
Reproducible Builds, special client support and more at the IzzyOnDroid 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! | |||
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2022-06-11
Extend the „simple binary repo“: Screenshots & more
The previous article described how to create and run a simple F-Droid repo. Of course, with just text it looks a bit spartan – so let’s polish it up a bit with this article, and add graphics among other things. | |||
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2022-03-03 (2021-11-14)
Setting up a simple binary F-Droid repo
No GUI, but more flexibility: fdroidserver is intended to run F-Droid repos. It’s used by F-Droid itself even to build apps from source, and also by IzzyOnDroid to just serve „collected apps“ using a setup variant called „simple binary repo“. This is easier to achieve than you might think – and this article shows you how to do it on a Debian based system. | |||
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2021-08-16
Metatrans Apps introduces its own F-Droid repository
With F-Droid, everybody can host their own repo: like the apps at F-Droid, the software is completely free and open source. Some enthusiast supporters already do so, also some developers. Read in this guest article how Metatrans Apps discovered this possibility for themselves, and what their experience was on the path. | |||
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2021-09-19 (2020-12-20)
Join the F-Droid Team: Tasks of a Reviewer
You’ve probably heard that F-Droid is „permanently understaffed“ and could need some more „helping hands“ – but always thought it might be to complicated for you? While there are indeed some complicated tasks: there are also easy onces any enthusiastic user can perform. No development knowledge required. Got curious? This article shows some of my daily tasks. | |||
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2018-12-31
Your own F-Droid Repository with Repomaker
The previous articles showed what F-Droid is and how it works. Now we want to see how to host our own app repository, and make it available to other F-Droid users. For this task, the F-Droid team offers a fine and easy-to-use tool: Repomaker. | |||
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2021-04-13 (2018-12-23)
F-Droid for advanced users and developers
This article covers advanced topics: you can use 3rd-party repositories and have the privileged extension to take care for automated updates. Further it will be shown how new apps can be added to F-Droid. | |||
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2018-12-09
F-Droid: The privacy-friendly alternative to Google Play Store
With Google Play Store you´re tracked without end: by the Play Store itself as well as by the most apps you can find in it. But you can escape that – e.g. by turning your back to Play Store and instead use an alternative focusing on free and open software as well as privacy. One such can be found in F-Droid – which this article introduces. | |||
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