Notices by IzzyOnDroid ✅ (izzyondroid@mastodon.technology)

Calling out to the Mastodon community again: famous @fdroidorg Repomaker is looking for a new maintainer (and contributors). Should be familiar with F-Droid, Python, Django.

Please help keeping it alive!

Volunteers go to https://gitlab.com/fdroid/repomaker/issues/234 – others please boost, as usual 😉 Thanks!

#helpWanted #callingOut

Looking for an #Android Dev who could help establishing a "foss build flavor" removing Crashlytics from an app at https://github.com/yevhenii-kanivets/Money-Tracker/issues/181 - anyone out there to help? If it's not you, please boost. Thanks!

Your help is much appreciated: if in my repo, you find an app that doesn't work / is broken, please report it (via the repo's GitLab tracker at https://gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo, here at Mastodon or by mail) – I cannot check them all by myself.

Similarly, if you miss an app that should be there and meets the repo's criteria: let me know, I'll take a look and usually include it.

Oh: same goes for my app listings, GitLab tracker at https://gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/applists

Thanks! And boosts welcome :awesome:

#Android #apps

Für alle, die sich wundern: Mein Server ist seit gestern Abend vom Netz. Ein Update hat "Nebenwirkungen" gehabt, die etwas tricky zu lösen sind. Noch kein ETA in Sicht. Mit viel Glück sind mein F-Droid Repo und meine Android App Listen später am Abend wieder verfügbar – ggf. aber auch erst im Laufe des WEs…

Sorry, my server is currently unreachable. A system update had unexpected side-effects which are tricky to solve. With luck it will be back later this evening – but it might also take over the weekend.

Für diejenigen, die es verpasst haben – am Sonntag ging Teil 3 meiner @fdroidorg Serie auf Deutsch online: "Eigenes F-Droid Repository mit Repomaker erstellen und verwalten." Viel Spaß beim Lesen – und umsetzen 😃

https://android.izzysoft.de/articles/named/fdroid-intro-3

Today the 100th app got elevated from my repo to the official @fdroidorg repository. I cannot tell which was number 100 – at F-Droid, there were 31 new apps since yesterday 😍 – so congrats to all of the developers who got their apps ready for us! 👍 💪

Always wanted to run your own F-Droid repo – but were afraid it's too complicated? No longer, as part 3 of my @fdroidorg series shows:

Your own F-Droid Repository with Repomaker

https://android.izzysoft.de/articles/named/fdroid-intro-3

Happy Chanukka, happy 2nd advent – and here comes a little present: I've just put the first article of my F-Droid series online. "F-Droid: The privacy-friendly alternative to Google Play Store" can be found at https://android.izzysoft.de/articles/named/fdroid-intro-1

Die deutsche Fassung verzögert sich noch ein wenig. Wer es nicht abwarten kann, kauft sich die c't 25, der ich (nach Vereinbarung mit Heise) ein paar Wochen Vorsprung geben muss 😉

Thanks to @exodus (sorry folks for having put a bit load on your site during the past few days; I'm back to normal now), coverage on what apps on my app listings are tainted by what trackers now is close to 95%

Thanks for offering that great service 🙇

What app listings? These:
https://android.izzysoft.de/applists

Watch out for those monitor icons (really offensive trackers) – but also for those yellow stars (no trackers found) next to the apps 😃

#privacy #android #apps

OK, jetzt sind alle @exodus bekannten Tracker erfasst (nicht nur die, welche auch Appbrain kennt). Ergebnis: kleine Sprünge in der Statistik. Jetzt gibt es u.a.

- 1 App mit 20 Trackern*
- 2 mit 19, 18, 17
- 8 mit 16
- 18 mit 15
- 36 mit 14
- 45 mit 13 …
- 1123 mit 3 …
- 60% mit 1+L

Wohlgemerkt nur von den 14k Apps in meinen Listen. Und das sind nur *Tracker, die mir als invasiv bekannt sind – da können also durchaus auch weit mehr verbaut sein …

#privacy #Android

@switchingsocial https://ebooks.qumran.org/ has ~1.000 English and ~9.000 German eBooks. All for free (either PD, CC-BY, or explicit grant by their authors).

For all those having panickily migrated their projects from #Github to #GitLab to get away from MS: GitLab just started the process of migrating to the Google cloud (GCP). Which means it won't be available in some countries (Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria) anymore because of "legal restrictions", as #Google informed them. Hopefully none of the migrators lives in any of them: migration is running already, no access possible anymore.

Congrats! 😒

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/07/19/gcp-move-update/

@fdroidorg PS: For those who wait for the 404 – app not (yet) found. As you can recommend apps for the official @fdroidorg repo via https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/issues – you can do the same for my repo via https://gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo (the README there gives details).

Gestern auf Englisch, heute auf Deutsch:

Entwickler von Gmail-Apps können E-Mails lesen https://heise.de/-4097026

Das heißt zweierlei: 1. kein Gmail, und 2. nur vertrauenswürdige Apps. Zum Beispiel K-9 Mail. Gibt es bei @fdroidorg

Remember me mentioning #TeaHub? Check it out:

https://about.teahub.io/

First details are public now!

To all those wanting to have some #FOSS app listed in my repo (e.g. because they can't have it included with the official F-Droid repo for some reason):

My Updater now also can fetch APKs from GitLab tags.

Description on the GitLab repo for my repo (oops) updated accordingly: https://gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo (file your requests in its issue tracker, please).

PS: mit Apps von @fdroidorg kann euch so etwas nicht passieren :-)