The F-Droid app was created in 2009 in the early days of Android and lots of its code is still that old. While the ecosystem has seen many drastic shifts, the F-Droid community heroically kept the app alive with band aids and chewing gum.
NGI Mobifree funds client app overhaul | F-Droid
https://f-droid.org/en/2025/04/29/mobifree-client-funding.html
7 Comments
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev · 4 pts · 1y
We kind of got Droidify for that
GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 1y
It's updated like once a year though.
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev · 3 pts · 1y
The update cycle seems to be pretty unstable, but it definitely does not only get updated every year. The last update was about a month ago. And the update before that 2 months.
Lolen10@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
It's definitely more than once per year (more like every 2-4 months). And as long as it works (which it does) I couldn't care less.
hosaka@programming.dev · 0 pts · 1y
Obtanium is also a good alternative btw
BrikoX@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y
It's good alongside F-Droid, doesn't really work as a complete replacement.
hosaka@programming.dev · 0 pts · 1y
It pretty much does, at least for all the apps I want to use I have no need to use fdroid. If not, maintainers should probably publish apks and have reproducible builds