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F-Droid has spent many years trying to step out of the "only for technical/power users" into the "This is a tool that normal phone users should have and use". A one time 24hr wait …

And just like that, another major policy statement from the Android team that is completely devoid of actionable information for those impacted: > Our new Registered App Stores pro…

Many people online and in person telling me "Google backed down" or "Google has an advanced flow" are typically referring to these two statements from Google staff: > Based on this…

While this is true of many projects, F-Droid has a track record of sourcing funding for security audits. To date there have been at least three audits, in 2015, 2018, and 2022. htt…

The last two places I've worked I added a custom "debug bar" of sorts. We typically use in dev and lower QA environments, and they quickly become indespensible to help answer quest…

I find a good IDE that you are already familiar with from other languages/environments goes a long way. Pick your poison, but for me because I'm already using IntelliJ for Java at …

This is the discussion on implementing a popcon-style feature in F-Droid if you want to read through where the project got to: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/396

I love this so much. I remember reading about this game in a PS1 magazine as a kid, but I could never get my hands on it. For some reason, it stuck with me for all these years unti…

Those who enjoyed this should also have a laugh at: "Vim Exit% Speedrun [WR - 2.50:13]" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLbfqZBL8t8

The Centennial Light mentioned in this article also features in a later chapter of the wonderfully written 17776 [0]. It will take a while to get through it, but very much worth th…

I always loved over-the-top, somewhat impractical visual effects like this. Reminds me of growing up playing with Compiz Fusion. For a retro Android game I maintain, I use the term…

I write and maintain a GPLv3 multiplayer game for Android to satisfy a creative itch. While writing the game, sustainability of the server component is top of my mind. I'd hate for…

When faced with the previous system [0] - where full table scans were the norm and filtering/sorting was done in Java afterwards - we certainly could have gone to proper database q…

Congratulations team. I was involved in the project for quite some time years ago. Indeed I ported the original “Read the full index.xml into Java memory using a giant DB class” wi…

Although asking about books, I'll share my current experience as a software developer with 15 years experience trying to self-learn electronics. 1. "YouTube University" as per the …

I write Android apps for my baby-now-toddler. At a few months old I created BabyDots [0] as she loved this YouTube video of dancing dots [1] which really settled her when she was u…

> F-Droid builds are custom signed and can be made by random parties without proper auditing after initial review. F-Droid follows a similar model to traditional linux package mana…

I'm in a fortunate enough position that the day job pays the bills and I enjoy it, such that I don't need income from my open source efforts. However, about a year ago I did two th…

A good high level overview of the moving parts involved in front end dev is https://roadmap.sh/frontend . Not all of it is used all the time, but if you can talk intelligently abou…

While I don't disagree about the fact it will likely cause a split similar to Angular, they seem quite explicit about the reasons (not to scratch the itch of the framework's design…

The Android Firefox browser is great. Not only does it do everything you expect a modern mobile browser to do, but also supports extensions, including uBlock Origin.

Good point. We had great success doing this with our PHP code base. For us it wasn't about pretty or not-pretty code, but rather about type safety. The idea that you can have a met…