F-Droid 2.0 is a complete redesign of the official F-Droid Android client, delivered after more than a year of development and 14 test releases. The app adopts Material Design and Kotlin Compose, simplifies navigation into Discover, Search, and My Apps, and focuses on making free and open source apps easier to find and manage. Discovery now surfaces new, recently updated, and most-downloaded apps; categories are expanded and grouped into higher-level meta categories (games split into 17 genres); search examines names, descriptions, categories and translations with improved support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean; and combinable filters plus contextual onboarding expose powerful features without hiding them in complex settings.
Installation, updates and privacy received major attention: F-Droid uses Android’s new pre-approval APIs to offer a unified, smoother installer and enables automatic background update checks by default while preserving manual controls. Data-usage settings were simplified, Tor support was migrated to generic proxy settings with TorVPN recommended, panic features remain but app-wiping is removed for now, and app-hiding is limited to icon/name masking to make its limits clear. F-Droid Privileged Extension isn’t supported in 2.0. The overhaul aims to counter platform changes that threaten sideloading and to ease integration into alternative Android builds.
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