New TWIF Submission Thread

Maybe something about Catima Wear OS, the first Wear OS app on F-Droid (to my knowledge, let me know if I’m wrong!)? Up to y’all of course. Just curious if there is a FOSS Wear OS community at all.

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Catima 2.45.0 was released with Wear OS support (and switched to Reproducible Build on F-Droid). This marks the first time a Wear OS application is released to F-Droid.

Although Wear OS is a proprietary platform with no FOSS custom ROMs like Lineage and the likes available for it, it is based on Android and therefore you can basically write apps for it the same way you do for Android.

While there is no F-Droid client which supports Wear OS at this point, you can install the Wear OS Catima companion app from F-Droid (v1.0.0 Wear OS), enjoying the same general F-Droid confirmation that the app really is FOSS. Alternatively, if you have a smartphone that’s supported by Gadgetbridge, you can use Gadgetbridge support in Catima, which has existed since 2013 and is much more private than Wear OS is: Loyalty cards / passes - Gadgetbridge.

For those curious about writing Wear OS apps without proprietary Google libraries, see the work-in-progress documentation on --annotate) are the object..

Do you use Wear OS and how do you currently find FOSS apps for it and how do you install them? Let us know!

Edited: I thought it’d be published to archive but apparently not, it’s in main

old to new StatusIM app migration Migrate from Status Legacy to Unified Status Mobile App and maybe more blog posts

. Lichess's Blog • More Than a Half-Year Update 2026 • lichess.org .

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. Daniel Gultsch | Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence .

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Silence lives again https://f-droid.org/packages/org.jimvixx.smsecure

can’t import silence backup…meh…will recommend when fixed

Docs went live on Replacing proprietary libraries - IzzyOnDroid .

. Luanti’s Android app was taken down from Google Play recently due to a baseless DMCA notice, the blog post mentions F-Droid as an alternative means of installation on Android and also the keepandroidopen movement: Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice - Luanti Blog .

. GitHub - barbeau/gpstest: The #1 open-source Android GNSS/GPS test program · GitHub release after >1 year

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The same reason AppleStore was sued for “Anti-Steering” rules in Epic games case.


https://piefed.social/c/degoogle@discuss.tchncs.de/p/2345638/comaps-now-displays-user-reviews

Puzzle Games Updated to V2.0.0 - Now have over 300+ offline puzzle games over 6 categories.

AppManager v4.1.1. Highlights: Revoke Internet Permission utilizing the eBPF rules in root or ADB mode, with limitations.
Also mention this https://archive.is/guZJf post (archived from their official Telegram channel – scroll to bottom for latest post)

Skymap fresh 2.0 rewritten app