I think Vela is my new favourite app 😆

it is so incredibly FAST 🤯

The github repo has an overview about which features ACTUALLY perform a google call: https://github.com/PimpinPumpkin/Vela

I'll try to swap the apps now and see how it goes. the stuff I tried from at home looked phenomenal: checking different route types, train schedules, restaurant ratings/opening hours/pictures, ...

I don't remember being THIS excited for an android app

#android #googlemaps #degoogle #vela #velamaps #grapheneOS

O H M Y GOD I'M ONLY READING THE WEBSITE FOR THIS BUT I NEED TO TEST THIS APP!!!

could this... could this be the app that will FINALLY solve the last piece of the puzzle when it comes to degoogling? #degoogle

https://pimpinpumpkin.github.io/Vela/

#vela #velamaps #android

PSA: While our update cycles get faster, updates come sooner, sometimes too soon 😼

#OpenVPN for #Android 0.7.66 has a bug where profiles get wiped. Check your MyApps Updates section in #FDroid client, touch OpenVPN details, upper right corner "ignore this update".

Carry on...

F-Droid 2.0 ist da: Android-App-Store erhält kompletten Neustart https://fosstopia.de/f-droid-2-0/ #Android #FDroid #FDroidAppStore

F-Droid 2.0 brings a redesigned Android app store experience with a new UI, improved search and filtering, background updates, and smoother app installs.
https://linuxiac.com/f-droid-2-0-android-app-store-launches-with-new-ui-improved-search/

#android #opensource

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F-Droid 2.0 brings a redesigned Android app store experience with a new UI, improved search and filtering, background updates, and smoother app installs.

⛓️ Today, Google has taken the next step in enclosing the #Android ecosystem by starting to enforce its developer verification program in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.

No better time than now to recommend the best apps from everyone's favorite #FOSS app store, F-Droid.

We'll start: Librera Reader, Image Toolbox, LocalSend, AntennaPod, FMD, Capy Reader, Unexpected Keyboard, Voice Audiobook Player, Aegis Authenticator...

https://tintotint.eu/whacky-corner/f-droid_slop/

Only apps from one #FDroid cycle were analysed? Was that easy? What will it take to follow each cycle or scan all >4.3K #Android apps?

And a poll: How did you find the report conclusions?

🎉 A major milestone for open source graphics on Android: Turnip is now the first Mesa driver to achieve official Vulkan conformance on Android.

The work also brings improved Android integration, shared Vulkan runtime infrastructure, and real-device CI testing on Qualcomm Adreno hardware.

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/mesa-on-android-how-we-brought-turnip,-skiavk,-and-cuttlefish-to-ci.html

@vulkan #Turnip #Mesa #Android #LinuxGraphics #OpenSource

@guilhem_allaman @fdroidorg

#fauxx #batteryDrain #android

I'm not happy with this. 17 mins screentime after 7 hours and fauxx is already the main culprit 🫠 uninstalling for now

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Android Screenshot of Battery consumption.

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Android Screenshot of Battery consumption.

Wtf #Thunderbird on #android has no filters on its own 🫪
basically not usable as a standalone without the desktop client that applies filters 🫠

Any #android #foss calendar recommendations that go with #caldav?

I'm syncing from #Nextcloud and my main requirement for the android app is to handle timezones correctly.

Currently using #fossify but I don't see any option for timezones...

I would like to choose the timezone when setting up an event and also view the calendar from a chosen timezone. Basically the same features that I can use in Nextcloud on the web-browser.

Any recommendations?

CN: Nextcloud on Android

lmao the legendary issue no. 19 (on-going since june 2016) got locked just now 😆😆😆 (Allow 2-way-sync)

it had turned into a comment section where people just kept on going in a circle where they would recommend non-free software to do the job

https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues/19#issuecomment-5159255475

#nextcloud #android

@eteryu #Google already gatekeeps targedSdk, each new Android will block older "unsecure". Today about 33% of apps in the #FDroid repo are built reproducible signed by the developers. F-Droid & Basic clients can update unattended on Android 12+ since early 2024. Apps are sandboxed by your Android, we function as a "package manager for #Android". We have some checks in place, but true, we can't check billions of line of code (half by AI now 🙃). We trust the devs, but we also verify, is that bad?

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

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

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