Last month, "Google unilaterally decreed that Android developers everywhere in the world are going to be required to register centrally with Google."

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html @fdroid

PC Mag: F-Droid Warns Google’s New Rules Could Kill Third-Party Android App Stores https://www.pcmag.com/news/f-droid-warns-googles-new-rules-could-kill-third-party-android-app-stores @PCMag #Google #Android

Is there a feature you've recently discovered in an app available on F-Droid that might not be obvious to casual users of the app? This is your chance to share it!

I’ve noticed at least one app installed via F-Droid that asked me to opt-in to on-device “AI”. Which made me curious about whether the F-Droid team has formulated a policy on this.

I scratched this brain itch here, please consider weighing in!

https://forum.f-droid.org/t/f-droid-policy-on-libre-ai/33279

#SoftwareFreedom #FDroid #MOLE #AI #OnDeviceAI #OSAID

@fdroid@lemmy.ml @fdroid@social.tchncs.de

I found this post quite interesting. While i already knew a few things its interesting to get a look at how scummy these companies behave at public events hosted by the European Comission.

I saw that on fdroid there's Deku sms anyone have tried it?

I've tried Whisper and Sayboard. Both are very cool for speech to text.

One issue is that I can't share pre-existing audio files into them to get the text.
Are there any foss apps that have that feature?

I've noticed Notely's feature of recording audio and transcription, which is very nice. The notes are not saved in the accessible storage, but the app's private storage. So, I currently have to export the audio and text. It also doesn't support importing audio recorded using a regular recording app.

So, is there any FOSS app that has the feature of being able to create trasncripts for pre-existing audio files? Or is too specific and would it be better to look into Termux?

This app is a small jewel:

• offline translation thanks to firefox translation engine
• OCR on images with tessercat
• overlay of translated text on the original image -> awesome!

It's still a young app, but it's really important to go towards de-googling!

Source code: https://github.com/DavidVentura/firefox-translator

crossposted from: https://feddit.it/post/21533667

I learnt about markdown from reddit and got to know more suff like ![img]() after joining Lemmy. Found Markor from a thread here or there.
Recently learnt about some features:

• Snippets/templates and controlling how and where the text entered should be:
  https://github.com/gsantner/markor/discussions/2221
• Creating charts and pie diagrams
  https://github.com/gsantner/markor/blob/master/NEWS.md#user-content-charts--graphs--diagrams-mermaidjs
• Katex for math
  https://github.com/gsantner/markor/blob/master/NEWS.md#user-content-settings

And a cool thing is that it supports rendering .html files(considering how Firefox doesn't show up in the list of apps capable of opening them). Was trying out Javascript bookmarklets and created an html file(with the js code in it) to make edits and try out stuff.

Making this post so that others can know of these features. I had Markor installed for more than a year, before I recently read their news.md and noticed these features.

Do you know of any other features or apps that'd be useful for more people to know of?

What is the future of F-Droid and apps it distributes now that Google is hell bent on stopping sideloading and forcing developers to register at google? A large portion of what F-droid distributes are apps that are not at Google's good graces.

https://hackaday.com/2025/08/26/google-will-require-developer-verification-even-for-sideloading/

The last day of so, I've noticed updates and downloads being abnormally slow. Anyone else?

I have an Honor phone (not rooted) and I dislike the default launcher, so I installed a new one. It worked, but even after switching the default in the settings, the settings kept changing themselves after a while to return to the default launcher. This happened with both Foss-ify's Launcher and Kiss Launcher, so it doesn't seem to be due to a failure of the selected launcher.

Next thing I intended to try was force stop Honor Home, but I'm a bit worried about doing that, because what if the phone still starts refusing to launch the installed launcher but can't find the old one either and doesn't launch anything? Will I find myself unable to open any apps (including the settings to revert this) if that happens?

Så kom opdateringen til @osmandapp over via @fdroid og kort opdatering i app

Opdatering til @CoMaps i min @fdroid og kort-opdatering i app - samt kortopdatering til @osmandapp

@streetcomplete havde også en opdatering i F-droid for nylig

Ved brug for meget højt niveau af sikkerhed

Opdatering kommet til @tails https://tails.net/news/version/_6.19/index.en.html (standard opdatering i Tails mens team tester #Tails baseret på Debian 13)

Opdatering til @torproject #Torbrowser

Også opdatering til #Torbrowser til Android - i @fdroid

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/42949921

Does anybody have experience with the apps Neo Backup, DataBackup or ideally both?

I would like to know if there are any differences in terms of functionality, capability or reliability? Like, is there some kind of app data, that one can backup/restore while the other can't? Are there speed differences in the backup/restore process? etc.

I've searched the internet for some comparisons but couldn't find much.

For context: I want to transfer all my apps to a new phone. In the past, I've used Titanium Backup for this, but it doesn't seem to be very up-to-date anymore. Now, Neo Backup and Data Backup seem to be the most promising (besides maybe SwiftBackup, but that's not open source and only available through the Play Store, it seems). So now I could of course just use one app first, backup everything on my old phone, restore everything on the new one and then look through all the apps to see what worked and what didn't. But it would be easier if I could get a hint on which one might be more suitable for my needs :)

Also, if you would recommend to use another app instead, please tell me!

Thank you all!

Links

Neo Backup

F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.machiav3lli.backup

GitHub: https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Backup

DataBackup

F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.xayah.databackup.foss

GitHub: https://github.com/XayahSuSuSu/Android-DataBackup

Hey @rabble, would you and your team at Nos.social be willing to help us get a range of Nostr apps packaged for @fdroid?

https://forum.f-droid.org/t/f-droid-still-lacking-a-nostr-app-for-android/33016

Also, what's your take on the Zap Store as an app distribution method?

#FDroid #Nostr #ZapStore