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 ...

Finally, my open-source and non-Play Store apps auto-update.

We knew that with Android 17, Google would introduce a new Android Switch process that they said was a collaboration with ...

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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 ...

I switched from the iPhone 3G to a Droid a couple of months back, and I haven't looked back. I can't say I really miss anything platform-related, and giving up the specific apps that I haven't ...

This free Android launcher made my phone and tablet look like Windows 11 - here's how ...

NewPipe and other open-source Android apps are warning users about Google's upcoming sideloading restrictions and offering ...

Where is Froyo for the Droid X? Verizon had originally promised an “early September” Froyo update for the Droid X, but that window has since passed with no comment from either the carrier or the ...

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