I’m in the newspaper! Dorian Zraggen wrote an article about digital gatekeepers, and I am one of the three people he interviewed: me about F-Droid, Carl Schwan about KDE, and Hannah Ward about the fediverse.

The article: https://www.woz.ch/2525/digitale-oekonomie/die-gatekeeper-umgehen/!M44FC5J9CXJP

I have been using F-Droid for the past ~8 years. Over time, I increasingly contributed to it: from small app metadata fixes, to website edits, to a tool visualizing app download statistics (see the graphs assembled by Tavi).

In the current 1.23 release of the F-Droid Android client, I rewrote the repository details screen in Jetpack Compose. Not only does it look more modern and more integrated with the rest of the app (compare it to the app details screen), but also mirror management has become a lot easier. Previously, the mirror list was a fixed-height nested scroll view…

And as it happens, if you get the WOZ app from F-Droid you will use my new repository details screen! Since the WOZ app is not in the main repo but in a custom repo.

Repository details before and after

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