@stereo

Ein Hinweis sei, bei aller Brisanz der Thematik gestattet: noch wird Android nicht "zerstört", d.h. die Aussage auf der Webseite, dass ab "September 2026 (..) ein stilles Update von Google ohne Zustimmung der Nutzer alle Android-Apps blockieren" wird, zumindest irreführend ist.

Ja, Google führt eine neue Entwicklerverifizierung ein und bekommt dadurch mehr Kontrolle über App-Verteilung auf vielen Android-Geräten. Die Kritik daran ist nur zu berechtigt. Überzogen ist aber die Warnung, ab September 2026 würden weltweit alle Apps auf jedem Android-Gerät ohne Ausnahmen blockiert.

https://www.mimikama.org/blockiert-google-bald-apps-auf-deinem-handy/

#mimikama #google #android #samstag

More than 200k users said NO!

More than 70 organisations signed a letter saying NO!

#FDroid wrote posts on why NOT!

We've talked with you and your representatives, around the world.

We've made the #KeepAndroidOpen website to explain it.

If you read the #Android tech news, you saw it.

If you use a search engine, you found it.

If you've asked their own #Gemini, you got the summary.

But who didn't see, hear or read anything from above? Yes, #Google

For your saftety? https://f-droid.org/2026/07/01/adv-malware.html

The main Mastodon app stopped working on my phone, so I tried out Flare instead. Pretty cool -> https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.dimension.flare/

#mastodon #fediverse #misskey #bluesky #twitter #x #flare #fdroid #android

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:

* 2.0 is as ready as possible, test now!
* #Google spreading #FUD about #Android #FLOSS apps
* #Fedilab #Mastodon 'Collections'
* more #ReFra gallery goodies
* more categories
+ 34 new apps
& 293 updates

Grab all your devices from the drawers: https://f-droid.org/2026/06/12/twif.html

#KeepAndroidOpen

Didn't touch the phone in that timeframe. What the fuck is this app doing. My phone was super hot when I picked it up just now -.-

Just checked and it is running in optimized battery mode 🤔

#android #deutschebahn

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Screenshot of android settings > battery usage, showing DB Navigator draining

🚨 Say that I were to give a talk to EU policy makers and OSS communities at a very big conference tomorrow...

...and that I want to spend half of my talk on how Google is locking down #Android through:
1. Device attestation
2. Developer registration
3. Age verification

What should I absolutely include? 👀

Input is welcome, sorry for the short notice. Plain language and realistic calls to action pls.

@fdroidorg @GrapheneOS @postmarketOS @Fairphone @appfair @fsfe @murena @volla @IzzyOnDroid

So #Lumo on #Android isn't working anymore without #playstore? 🤔😕

#degoogle #proton

Why #FDroid for your #Android device? No need to "just trust us" about how we check, how we build and why we care, you can look at everything that we do as #FLOSS offers the transparency you want.

@bendineliot explains this in many more words: https://f-droid.org/2026/05/27/building-trust.html

#keepandroidopen

Preparing some phones for normies👌🏽

#grapheneOS #privacy #android #pixel8a #googlepixel8a

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Two Pixel 8a devices about to get flashed

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Photograph of the grapheneOS web installer in action

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Two Pixel 8a devices now running GrapheneOS

https://keepandroidopen.org/

#android #privacy #Google

I just now replaced #OrganicMaps with #CoMaps

I exported all the bookmark-lists as .kmz files and opened each one of them with CoMaps. No issues, all the bookmarks are there. Then I enabled automatic backups, weekly, keeping 3 versions 👌🏽

This was very smooth 😄

#Android #FOSS

Last week in #FDroid (LWIF) is live so we'll make this short:

* #Conversations_IM #XMPP is already out of beta and changed files storage location, read now!
* #BitcoinWallet update for #Android 9 or later
* #HomeAssistant is back on track
* #OSMAnd major features
* how to help us to ease app inclusion
+ 46 new apps
& 256 updates
- 1 archived app

Better late than more late: https://f-droid.org/2026/04/30/twif.html

While we wrestle with our website generation bugs, a new call for testers of #FDroid and Basic.

2.0-alpha9 released over the weekend:
* a redesigned featured categories in Discover
* an useful search page, with categories, keyboard control & easter-egg (touch search twice) and keywords in categories descriptions
* more on-boarding overlays to explore
* updated translations
* fixes and tweaks

We need you all to test the clients on all sorts of #Android devices, the more diverse the merrier!

#android #foss #maps

Any lightweight app where I can download maps from open street maps, put markers for myself (basically bookmarks) AND automatically back them up or sync them to some place remote?
#OrganicMaps only allows manual backups it seems 🤔

@HennaVirkkunen But how would anyone install the apps if #Google locks #Android in September anyway? https://keepandroidopen.org #KeepAndroidOpen

Remember our call for #FDroid board membership?

We are glad so many want to help #Android #FLOSS and stepped up to the challenge, specially in these troubled times. Unfortunately we can't have everyone join now, but we welcome your submission next year.

Let's meet the new board: https://f-droid.org/2026/04/28/board-appointments-2026.html

#Google gate-keeping #Android is not only an #EU #DMA issue, developers and users will be affected all over the world.

Our own @eighthave gave an interview last month talking about the balance between security and freedom.

Click here: https://www.aljazeera.net/tech/2026/3/14/%D8%AA%D8%B7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%B7%D8%B1

(Fennec #FDroid has offline translation 😉)

And remember, #KeepAndroidOpen!

Весь мой вчерашний и позавчерашний день, в борьбе с Unbound , DNS-over-TLS , #letsencrypt, AppArmor и, естественно , Linux.

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#unbound опять не запускается

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#AppArmor мешает #unbound читать сертификаты #letsencrypt