F-Droid

Android Developer Verification enforcement just started. Can you define your installed app list as code — and what breaks if you try?

How F-Droid's repository model works, why it has five front ends, and what actually keeps sideloaded APKs safe.

Your keyboard's word list was probably frozen in 2014. Here's who maintains the open-source dictionaries — and why Gboard's stays fresh.

Two phones, no data, one room. Morse over sound and flashlight — what the research says about echoes, timing, and whether anyone will hear you.

Android's code is open, but its roadmap isn't. What happens when Google changes the core and developers just have to cope?

NVIDIA's Parakeet beats Whisper on Android — but can you teach it Hebrew, or just your own jargon? Two answers, one much happier.