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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 …

Announcing the Developer Challenges Survey

March 21, 2017

In the Guardian Project‘s current work with the FDroid community to make it a secure, streamlined, and verifiable app distribution channel for …

Build Android apps with Debian: apt install android-sdk

March 13, 2017

In Debian stretch, the upcoming new release, it is now possible to build Android apps using only packages from Debian. This will provide all of the …

F-Droid now supports APK Expansion Files aka OBB

February 22, 2017

Many games, mapping, and other apps require a large amount of data to work. The APK file of an Android app is limited to 100MB in size, yet it is …

Build Your Own App Store: Android Media Distribution for Everyone

February 22, 2017

Most people get their Android apps from Google Play. It is usually the simplest and most secure option for them. But there are also many people who do …

How can we learn without watching?

January 30, 2017

What kind of measurement, tracking or analytics do you use, and can you sleep at night with your decision? As part of the Berkman-Klein Assembly …

Imagining the challenges of developers in repressive environments

January 26, 2017

The Guardian Project team spends a lot of time thinking about users. In our work we focus on easy-to-use applications for users in high-risk …

New Partnership with Circle of 6 mobile safety app

January 19, 2017

Circle of 6 Focuses on Security with Guardian Project Partnership Safety App Will Get End-to-End Encryption and More To Support High-Risk Communities …

Orfox 1.2.1 released

December 2, 2016

We’ve released a new version of Orfox, our Tor Browser for Android, that contains an an important security update to Firefox. This update is based on …

Orfox 1.2: An Overdue Update to Our Privacy-Focused Browser!

September 25, 2016

Primarily this release is the first in a long while after improving our ability to stay up-to-date with core Tor Browser development. In addition, as …