#Google’s Requirement For All #Android Developers To Register And Be Verified Threatens To Close Down #OpenSource App Store #FDroid - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/07/googles-requirement-for-all-android-developers-to-register-and-be-verified-threatens-to-close-down-open-source-app-store-f-droid/ the latest from me, fwiw...

Al mismo tiempo quería preguntar si alguien sabe alguna aplicación #FOSS que sirva cómo cronómetro de boxeo, en la #PlayStore hay una muy buena en cuanto a funcionalidades pero tiene publicidad y hay que pagar para quitárselas. En #fdroid al menos por ahora no he dado con alguna alternativa.

La app que yo menciono tiene la posibilidad de programar cantidad de asaltos (rounds) y cantidad de descansos así como los tiempos de cada uno.

#Google’s Requirement For All #Android Developers To Register And Be Verified Threatens To Close Down #OpenSource App Store #FDroid - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/07/googles-requirement-for-all-android-developers-to-register-and-be-verified-threatens-to-close-down-open-source-app-store-f-droid/ the latest from me, fwiw...

Is something up with #fdroid? Have been trying to install the Android fork of #syncthing for two days. The download is really slow, and it keeps stopping. I have to go back into f-droid to manually restart it, and it looks like last night it just gave up altogether.

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

"If you own a computer, you should have the right to run whatever programs you want on it. This is just as true with the apps on your Android/iPhone mobile device as it is with the applications on your Linux/Mac/Windows desktop or server. Forcing software creators into a centralized registration scheme in order to publish and distribute their works is as egregious as forcing writers and artists to register with a central authority in order to be able to distribute their creative works. It is an offense to the core principles of free speech and thought that are central to the workings of democratic societies around the world."

#opensource #android #fdroid #freedom

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

"If you own a computer, you should have the right to run whatever programs you want on it. This is just as true with the apps on your Android/iPhone mobile device as it is with the applications on your Linux/Mac/Windows desktop or server. Forcing software creators into a centralized registration scheme in order to publish and distribute their works is as egregious as forcing writers and artists to register with a central authority in order to be able to distribute their creative works. It is an offense to the core principles of free speech and thought that are central to the workings of democratic societies around the world."

#opensource #android #fdroid #freedom

@bastianallgeier

Instead of talking about everything that's stupid about #Apple and #Google, we should be promoting #opensource #smartphones and #Fdroid and co.

@bradlinder
I. Do. Not. Want. This.

If I wanted a company to have this much control over my device, I would just use an iOS device. This directly threatens #FDroid and open source Android apps in general, which I must conclude is the point.

@older @delta okay, when you do not want to use google, better go with #fdroid as suggested above. this is working today :)

Google being clear that, if you want to distribute an app for Android, whether via another store (such as F-Droid) or just for side loading, you will need to register with Google.

Time to push harder against this restriction.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets-talk-security-answering-your-top.html

#Android #FDroid

If you have any old android devices lying around, you might wanna install F-Droid, Aurora Store, and all the open source stuff you wanna sideload before Google blocks sideloading.

I usually install F-Droid, then install basic and delete the original. The basic version requires fewer permissions.

#fdroid #foss #opensource

Google being clear that, if you want to distribute an app for Android, whether via another store (such as F-Droid) or just for side loading, you will need to register with Google.

Time to push harder against this restriction.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets-talk-security-answering-your-top.html

#Android #FDroid

🚨 F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

｢ The F-Droid project cannot require that developers register their apps through Google, but at the same time, we cannot “take over” the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications. If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree will end the F-Droid project ｣

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

#fdroid #android #opensource

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

#android #fdroid #google

We have to stop the Google/Apple mobile duopoly. And we have to stop the marching enshittification of society. More concretely, we have to fight back against Google's attempt to lock-down the whole Android ecosystem.

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

This is something that any sane regulatory body should forbid.

#google #apple #android #aosp #fdroid #privacy #security #enshittification #surveillance #mobile #politics