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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source
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Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it
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easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.
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It connects to any F-Droid compatible repositories. The default repo
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is hosted at f-droid.org, which contains only bona fide Free and Open
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Source Software.
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Android itself is open in the sense that you are free to install apks
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from anywhere you wish, but there are many good reasons for using
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F-Droid as your free software app manager:
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* Be notified when updates are available
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* optionally download and install updates automatically
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* Keep track of older and beta versions
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* Filter apps that aren't compatible with the device
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* Find apps via categories and searchable descriptions
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* Access associated urls for donations, source code etc.
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* Stay safe by checking repo index signatures and apk hashes
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This is packaged as an OTA (Over-The-Air) update ZIP file. It must be
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installed using TWRP or other Android recovery that can flash updates
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to the system from the /data/data/org.fdroid.fdroid folder on the
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/data partition. Once this OTA package is installed, updates will come
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from the normal [[org.fdroid.fdroid]] builds.
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