F-Droid maintains a repository of free and open source (FOSS) Android apps, and the F-Droid client for Android devices basically functions as an alternative to the default app store on most Android ...

While F-Droid is convenient for easily obtaining apps that aren't available on Google Play, apps installed via F-Droid may not be the latest version. This can happen because the F-Droid repository ...

F-Droid is adding support for Android 15’s app archiving feature, making it the first third-party app store to support the new capability. App archiving is a feature that lets you reclaim storage ...

Android 15 will extend the ‘app archiving’ feature to F-Droid. The popular app store is the first third-party platform to support the new capability. The Android Operating System (OS) has been ...

Google announced policy changes that place more requirements on Android developers last month, which are supposed to make the Android ecosystem a more safe and secure platform. Some say these new ...

F-Droid says Google’s developer registration rule could end its open-source app store and strand users. Google defends verification as a security step. Google’s new developer registration decree is ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Google plans to begin testing its recently announced verification scheme for Android developers in the coming weeks, but there’s still precious little information on how the process will work. F-Droid ...

F-Droid has warned that Google’s new developer verification rules could effectively kill alternative Android app stores. The platform says that Google’s rules are monopolistic and harmful to ...