F-Droid-Data

What we do:

• Keeping apps in F-Droid up-to-date
  • Fixing build failures
  • Checking for proprietary libraries
  • Disabling tracking features
• Packaging new apps requested in https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp
• Communicating with upstream software authors to make it possible to publish apps in F-Droid

All apps in F-Droid are completely built from source. That means there is complete transparency what goes into an apk published on https://f-droid.org. It also means that it's often a lot more difficult for us to keep up with changing dependencies, etc. such that some apps require constant attention for every update. (i.e. Firefox/Fennec, VLC, OsmAnd, ... ).

Additionally the Android ecosystem is moving quite fast. This means that build tools like gradle are in constant change, so our build recipes need constant changes as well.