As with any other system or preinstalled app, all the app data is preserved between updates.
Just to throw my opinion in: There is still a strong myth, fuelled by corporate advertising, that FOSS is difficult to manage and “geekish” or “hackish”. FP Open should be designed in a way that makes the transition to FOSS for the average user as easy as possible. I see F-Droid as software management / update utility as an integral part of such an approach. Other things to consider would be a pre-installed offline calendar extension so that people can use the calendar without any warning messages telling them that they need a Google account. We have to make “our” FP Open as easy and beautiful as it can be
Both “offline calendar” and DAVdroid together would probably be a good choice. Thats what I am using and they co-exist on my FP2 peacefully. I know there are lots of people who want to use their phones functionality without the need for any synchronization.
Yeah, sorry, I overread “offline”. I myself am very satisfied with DAVdroid + posteo.de and I wouldn’t want to miss out on synchronization (especially when I modify my phone with Xposed etc., where I can make mistakes… ).
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Why shall Google have something to say or allow on a non-Google OS ?
They have some say in Android with Google Mobile Services. It’s against their EULA to redistribute it without their approval. I don’t know the exact terms, but @paulakreuzer is right, this could be a problem and Fairphone should not risk getting sued over something like that.
In FP open, this would not be a problem of cause.
Ah OK thanks. I was focusing on FP open only, as F-Droid would mainly be useful to be pre-installed for those using the open OS.
Hi,
I have submitted https://code.fairphone.com/gerrit/27 to include the F-Droid Privileged Extension in Fairphone Open.
Including this is a start towards getting F-Droid integrated.
Just this by itself allows installation without enabling unknown sources even if the F-Droid app is installed on data (i.e. by the user).
I appreciate your initiative.
But just for the record: if you copy the FDdroid.apk into the folder /system/priv-app you also can use it without needing to enable unknown sources.
But it will be uninstalled with every system update.
Having Privileged Extension built into FP Open also means that you can use F-Droid with system/priv-app access while still using verified/locked boot. Privileged Extension also was designed on the principle of Least Authority, so only a tiny bit of code to manage install and uninstall is running at an elevated privilege, while the rest of F-Droid runs as a regular app.
A post was merged into an existing topic: Testing F-Droid privileged (before including it in FP Open)
Si certains ne souhaitent pas F-Droid dans Fairphone Open, un installeur facile de celui-ci inclut dans Fairphone Updater est une bonne idée.
If some people don’t want F-Droid in Fairphone Open, an easy F-Droid installer included in Fairphone Updater is a good idea.
I like the idea of Fairphone Updater being able to install F-Droid. I’d like to see if I could implement it. Anyone know where the source repo for Fairphone updater is?
Perhaps of interest …
Hi, @eighthave! Nice to see you by here.
Full source code of Fairphone Open OS is at https://code.fairphone.com/
They have a Gerrit instance there. One of the repos is Fairphone Updater. If you can’t find it, I can locate it tomorrow afternoon for you,
Thanks, I see it now!
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