#Fdroid's statement re. #Google's attack on your freedom to install the apps you want on #Android devices.

#enshittification #bigtech #monopolies #oligopolies #freesoftware

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

#Fdroid's statement re. #Google's attack on your freedom to install the apps you want on #Android devices.

#enshittification #bigtech #monopolies #oligopolies #freesoftware

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

#AndroidAppRain at https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1&doFilter=1 today brings you 33 updated and 1 added apps:

* Fonts: install fonts on Samsung devices running One UI 8 without root

RB status: 742 apps (57.6%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo

#AndroidAppRain at https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1&doFilter=1 today brings you 33 updated and 1 added apps:

* Fonts: install fonts on Samsung devices running One UI 8 without root

RB status: 742 apps (57.6%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo

#Google trips over its own words, when they sell you #Android it's the best computing device in the world that does everything. After you bought it Google doesn't let you do anything *you* want to.

#Sideload is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing”, regardless of whether that computer is in your pocket or on your desk.

What Do You Talk About When You Talk About Sideloading?

What does Google?

Here's #FDroid: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

#Google trips over its own words, when they sell you #Android it's the best computing device in the world that does everything. After you bought it Google doesn't let you do anything *you* want to.

#Sideload is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing”, regardless of whether that computer is in your pocket or on your desk.

What Do You Talk About When You Talk About Sideloading?

What does Google?

Here's #FDroid: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

I was reading a blog post by #fdroid about the requirements for signed packages: https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

I think this will be more interesting in the coming years because more people are foregoing using a desktop or laptop and doing everything on a tablet or phone. Even #ChromeOS will soon be replaced with something #Android based. The demand for Android version of apps have never been higher and the inability to use F-Droid on regular Android devices will have lasting effects.

I was reading a blog post by #fdroid about the requirements for signed packages: https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

I think this will be more interesting in the coming years because more people are foregoing using a desktop or laptop and doing everything on a tablet or phone. Even #ChromeOS will soon be replaced with something #Android based. The demand for Android version of apps have never been higher and the inability to use F-Droid on regular Android devices will have lasting effects.

Oof, the Android keyboard (as available in GrapheneOS) is quite a step back coming from iOS. Turns out there are some useful features in iOS that I really miss: emoji suggest/replace when typing, auto language/keyboard switch between different chats, and Dutch keyboard dictionary.

I'm not really sure how to fix this. Does anyone know whether there is a keyboard for Android that supports these features? I investigated some on F-Droid, but none seem to come close.

#iOS #Android

💡Remember:

:freesoftware: "Open Source Eventually" is the same as "Proprietary For Now".

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #Android #Linux