Guardian Project Blog

Ostel.co is permanently offline

August 10, 2017

We are sad to announce that the Ostel service is officially discontinued and permanently offline. While Guardian Project had a hand in its conception …

Repomaker Usability Trainers Worldwide, June 2017

June 29, 2017

Repomaker Usability, Trainers Worldwide Study Prepared by Carrie Winfrey and Tiffany Robertson, Okthanks, in partnership with F-Droid and Guardian …

Tracking usage without tracking people

June 8, 2017

One thing that has become very clear over the past years is that there is a lot of value in data about people. Of course, the most well known examples …

fdroidserver UX Testing Report

June 1, 2017

We ran user tests of fdroidserver, the tools for developers to create and manage F-Droid repositories of apps and media. This test was set up to …

Announcing new libraries: F-Droid Update Channels

May 31, 2017

In many places in the world, it is very common to find Android apps via a multitude of sources: third party app stores, Bluetooth transfers, swapping …

New research report on the challenges developers face

May 15, 2017

The Guardian Project has been working with the F-Droid community to make it a secure, streamlined, and verifiable app distribution channel for …

F-Droid User Testing, Round 2

May 1, 2017

# by Hailey Still and Carrie Winfrey **** Here we outline the User Testing process and plan for the F-Droid app store for Android. The key aims of …

F-Droid: A new UX 6 years in the making

April 17, 2017

(post by Peter Serwylo) F-Droid has been a part of the Android ecosystem for over 6 years now. Since then, over 2000 apps have been built for the main …

F-Droid Lubbock Report – What We Want to Know

April 17, 2017

F-Droid LBK Usability Study Report – What We Want to Know Prepared by Carrie Winfrey Preliminary Version – April 17, 2017 Introduction When planning …

Proofmode critiques and progress

March 30, 2017

Bruce Schneier was kind enough to post about our work on Proofmode to his blog. A decent set of comments ensued, which we have considered, measured …