F-Droid’s Android open-source app store has been rebuilt from the ground up

“Virtually every Android device comes with the Play Store preloaded, but there are other ways to get apps. F-Droid bills itself as a community-driven source for free and open source Android apps, but its official app store has gone 10 years without a major update. That’s finally changing: After a multiyear effort, the team has just announced F-Droid 2.0 is rolling out. The new F-Droid client was redesigned from scratch in Kotlin Compose, which is the standard for modern Android apps. This makes the store much more responsive, and there’s optional support for Android’s Material theming. The interface has also been cleaned up considerably, making the most important functions easier to access and hiding some others in overflow menus.” I’ve been using F-Droid, along with Obtainium, for a long time. Many open-source apps are not at all on the official Android play store. F-Droid fetches the public git/mercurial source code for an app, strips out non-free dependencies (like proprietary…