F-Droid gets its biggest update in a decade with new UI and smoother app installs

F-Droid's Android app store has been rebuilt from the ground up.

The short version

• F-Droid’s Android 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.

What happened

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.

Why it matters

This makes the store much more responsive, and there’s optional support for Android’s Material theming.

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