This Week In F-Droid 21, Week 37, 2018

In this edition: F-Droid project receives a donation of two VMs, Tor Browser coming to Android, 28 new apps including Emerald Dialer and MiniVector, and 61 app updates including NewPipe and Kwik EFIS & DMAP.

F-Droid is a repository of verified free and open source Android apps, a client to access it, as well as a whole “app store kit”, providing all the tools needed to set up and run an app store. It is a community-run free software project developed by a wide range of contributors. This is their story this past week.

Tor Browser moving to officially support Android

The Tor Project has released an alpha of Tor Browser for Android for the first time ever. It’s available on Tor Project’s downloads page and Google Play for now, but the possibilities of bringing it to F-Droid are being explored. This is especially relevant as Orfox (from the builtin but not-enabled-by-default Guardian repository) will be sunsetted.

F-Droid receives a donation of two big VMs

We had two big VMs donated to us by Pretty Easy Privacy. They have been delivered, and @_hc and @uniq have been trying them out. More later.

New apps

We have a whopping 28 new apps for you to try this week!

In total, 61 apps were updated this week. Here are the highlights:

Tips and Feedback

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