Follow-on project GrapheneOS does not include F-Droid, and is developing their own app distribution method for "higher robustness and security". In March 2016 F-Droid partnered with Guardian Project and CopperheadOS with the goal of creating "a solution that can be verifiably trusted from the operating system, through the network and network services, all the way up to the app stores and apps themselves". In January 2016 Hans-Christoph Steiner, a developer for Calyx Institute, Debian, F-Droid, and Guardian Project, said F-Droid was focusing on issues like security, building with Debian, reproducible builds, software requiring trust of as few people as possible, transparency, user privacy, non-internet distribution of apps, block avoidance, and media distribution. In 2014 F-Droid was chosen as part of the GNU Project's GNU a Day initiative during their 30th anniversary to encourage more use of free software. In 2012, Free Software Foundation Europe featured F-Droid in their Free Your Android! campaign to raise awareness of the privacy and security risks of proprietary software. Guardian Project, a suite of free and secure Android applications, started running their own F-Droid repository in early 2012. In June 2022, Replicant announced they had removed F-Droid. In 2016, the Replicant project determined F-Droid did not comply with GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines, and asked for assistance correcting it, but progress stalled. Replicant, a fully free software Android operating system, previously used F-Droid as its default and recommended app store. According to Daniel Marti, Former F-Droid Developer, in 2013, removal of AdAway from the Google Play Store caused a spike in searches and downloads of F-Droid, and he estimated there were 30 to 40 thousand users.
In 2015 it transitioned to proprietary licensed GitLab when Gitorious was acquired by GitLab. įrom 2010 to 2015 F-Droid used AGPL licensed Gitorious repository system for development. In a 2014 interview for Free Software Foundation, Gultnieks said he was inspired to launch F-Droid because of "lock-down, lock-in and general nefarious behavior from software" on phones.
As of 2021, F-Droid Limited was no longer used for donations, and was being shut down, according to spokesman Hans-Cristoph Steiner. The project was initially run by the English nonprofit F-Droid Limited. The client was forked from Aptoide's source code. Development of F-Droid data over time from 2010 through 2018 į-Droid was founded by Ciaran Gultnieks in 2010.
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