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Interesting interview with sidephone founders, they use an F-Droid whitelabel app for their app store, no Google: Sebastian Snell, Chris Ristovski (Sidephone) - For A Better Web | Vivaldi Browser
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?map-download-server:https://your-server.com/in the search window to override the Organic Maps map download servers. Type?no-map-download-serverto remove the override
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NewPipe will have a devroom at FrOSCon 2026. The team member look forward to meet people from the community and do some hacking.
The blog post will be at NewPipe is at FrOSCon 2026, currently a PR initial take on related blogpost by Poolitzer · Pull Request #449 · TeamNewPipe/website · GitHub
> Bookmark import: Import your bookmarks from a CSV file.
. Firefox for Android 153.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes ..
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1st release of offline-translator desktop version (AppImage) for linux users.
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ping us when the post is up 
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Tubular isn’t dead yet, might want to re-add it, unfortunately this one has a weird oddity: You can’t change the maximum tempo, using a file from standard Tubular with the 10X tempo actually bypasses that limitation, but that is a lazy fork to not have that feature implemented, maybe somebody could alert the maintainer of that fork about this blunder?
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This space is for apps in F-Droid mostly. We can add this info once included.
HomeFeed (com.byterdevs.rsswidget) key change
Conceal Mobile key change
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Revamped AuroraStore:
v4.8.4 (76): 4.8.4 (ad3d349e) · Commits · Aurora OSS / AuroraStore · GitLab
4.8.4 · Aurora OSS / AuroraStore · GitLab
• Rebuilt the interface with modern Jetpack Compose
• Support for multiple Google accounts
• User reviews on the app details screen
• Optional app lock via biometrics or device credentials
• One-click install for favourites and a buy flow for paid apps
• Reworked notifications with grouped summaries and settings
• Revamped updates screen; self-updates now shown in the list
• More reliable downloads/installs and microG installer support
• Bug fixes and translation updates
Mod: No off topic on this post.
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Get rid of Jetpack Compose as well, it too was designed by Google: Jetpack Compose - Wikipedia
Material 3 & Jetpack Compose are interconnected, seriously I am really considering throwing a rebellion against Google, outright boycotting Material & Jetpack in favor of Non-Google alternative UI options.
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- Release KOReader 2026.07 "Sailing Walrus" · koreader/koreader · GitHub
Highlights: background cleanup for Archive.org PDFs, OPDS 2.0 basic support, SyncService replaced by the new Cloud storage plugin with various improvements + many more changes.
info:
OPDS 2.0 is now the standard not draft anymore. StandardEbooks already supports it and Project Gutenberg will make it available in 2027.
mlauncher - key change
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Tailscale is finally updated again, after 4 months. I see nothing special in Changelog · Tailscale though.
AuroraDroid is now revived with a release version of 2.0.1 today, after 5 years.
F-Droid MR was completed and is now pending build.
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Another new app (pending): Windy Live Wallpaper (fdroiddata#45275)
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We automatically have a New apps list