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The parser should accept additional elements to each uses-permission entry, in case more XML attributes is added to <uses-permission>. <uses-permission> has had two attributes since the beginning. Other changes to this JSON data structure are bad index-v1 format, and will cause crashes: * Removing an element e.g. null from a uses-permission entry would be invalid index-v1 JSON, since that structure mirrors the uses-permission AndroidManifest.xml element, which has a long standing fixed definition of name/maxSdkVersion. That should crash so that fdroidserver authors know they are generating invalid index-v1. * setting versionCode to anything but an int is invalid index-v1 JSON, and should crash. versionCode has been defined as an 32-bit signed integer value since the beginning of Android. * <uses-permission android:name=""> has been defined as a string since the beginning of Android. https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-permission-element.html
F-Droid Client
Client for F-Droid, the Free Software repository system for Android.
Building with Gradle
./gradlew assembleRelease
Direct download
You can download the application directly from our site or browse it in the repo.
Contributing
See our Contributing doc for information on how to report issues, translate the app into your language or help with development.
IRC
We are on #fdroid and #fdroid-dev on Freenode. We hold weekly dev meetings
on #fdroid-dev on Thursdays at 08:30h UTC, which usually last half an hour.
FAQ
- Why does F-Droid require "Unknown Sources" to install apps by default?
Because a regular Android app cannot act as a package manager on its own. To do so, it would require system privileges (see below), similar to what Google Play does.
- Can I avoid enabling "Unknown Sources" by installing F-Droid as a privileged system app?
This used to be the case, but no longer is. Now the Privileged Extension is the one that should be placed in the system. It can be bundled with a ROM or installed via a zip, or alternatively F-Droid can install it as a system app using root.
License
This program is Free Software: You can use, study share and improve it at your will. Specifically you can redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Some icons are made by Picol, Icomoon or Dave Gandy from Flaticon or by Google and are licensed by Creative Commons BY 3.0.
Other icons are from the Material Design Icon set released under an Attribution 4.0 International license.