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F-Droid Secures Major Funding to Ensure Long-Term Sustainability

2025-02-05
F-Droid Secures Major Funding to Ensure Long-Term Sustainability

F-Droid, a platform providing free and open-source Android apps, has received a $396,044 grant from the Open Technology Fund. This funding will address critical challenges to F-Droid's long-term sustainability, including code refactoring, improving legal strategies for handling government takedown requests, streamlining localization workflows, strengthening donation infrastructure, and enhancing hosting and infrastructure. This ensures F-Droid can continue delivering privacy-focused, open-source apps to users worldwide, even in areas with limited internet access.

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F-Droid 2024 Recap: Decentralization and Ecosystem Growth

2025-01-23
F-Droid 2024 Recap: Decentralization and Ecosystem Growth

F-Droid made significant strides in 2024, focusing on decentralizing app distribution and expanding its ecosystem. Funded by grants from the Filecoin Foundation and EU Horizon Europe, F-Droid improved core client logic, added support for IPFS and Filecoin, and upgraded the Repomaker tool for easier repository creation. The community also shone, adding over 402 new apps and updating over 7205 apps. In 2025, F-Droid will continue its work on the Mobifree project and welcomes two new team members to further strengthen its infrastructure and enhance user experience.

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