F-Droid

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/35523960

Revolt became Stoat

Cool new name, however not as easy to use in other languages.

Voice chat is stil not officialy implemented.

Self-hosting there. Apparently nothing to do for you if you had already hosted before the name change.

The Android app has unfortunately disappeared (not been updated) on F-droid.

Project 'Nulide/findmydevice' was moved to 'fmd-foss/fmd-android'. Please update any links and bookmarks that may still have the old path.

Find My Device has moved (since V0.10, V0.12 as of writing) and if you are hosting the server yourself, you might have missed that and might be locked out of the website interface.

If you have autoupdates on FDroid for your client, maybe you did not see the info.

Tessel is a colorful tile placement game. Place tiles with matching colors to make shapes and fill the board. The larger the shape, the higher the points.

documentation ☞ https://tessel.vantulder.net/about/

as title, don't know if there are some updates on this, has Lemmy added support to categorize communities?

I want to connect tailscale if I disconnect from home WiFi and vice versa. Is there a way to achieve this? I'm on Android 14.

Privacy and Security

Secret Space Encryptor (SSE): File Encryption, Text Encryption, Secure Password Manager.

Valv: An encrypted gallery vault for Android devices.

Safe Space: A safe space for your digital valuables.

Deku: Deku is an SMS app that supports end to end encryption and photo sharing.

CameraFileCopy: use your camera to transfer data.

Alibi: Use your phone as a dashcam and save the last 30 minutes when you need it.

FadCam: Privacy-focused background video recorder that works even when the screen is off.

Media

Open Video Editor: Open source Android video editor.

Camera Date Folders: Sort photos from camera folder into a date specific subfolder structure.

SimpleTag: Tag your audio files.

Learning

Book's Story: Material You eBook reader.

DékaDico: Spoken numbers memory trainer.

Really Basic Vocab: simple flashcard app.

Lernkarten Eule: Practice with flashcards (math and Latin).

Flash Deck: A simple and easy to use flashcard to help you study.

Productivity

MoeMemos: An app to help you capture thoughts and ideas.

Games

Eat Poop You Cat: a bit like telephone with writing and drawing.

Quinb: A multiplayer reaction game.

INSTEAD: Interactive fiction games.

@tornorbye listened to the latest Android Developer Backstage, only topic that wasn't covered was the open source app store @fdroid . Has there been active communication with them?

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?