On 27 March 2012 20:02, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
The f-droid repository appears to only have 8 pages of applications, that would be 240 apps or less. Obviously we need to have a wider range of apps there. It seems that there are free apps which aren't in f-droid, the Serval and "c:geo opensource" people seem to be committed to free software but don't have their apps there. Also some app developers haven't published any interest in free software but have aims which match - the Marine Traffic app is one example where the developers should be FOSS friendly. So some f-droid and FOSS on Android advocacy would probably help.
There is a lot of open source software not in F-Droid, have a look at the request queue: http://f-droid.org/forums/forum/submission-queue/ Unfortunately this is just a forum, there is no tracking of which ones have been included. A while ago I tried to get Tram Hunter included, however haven't seen or heard anything since: http://f-droid.org/forums/topic/tram-hunter/ I could generate a list of open source software that is useful in Android market but not in F-Droid, however not really sure this is useful based on my experiences with the above request. I don't think there is any software in F-Droid (correct me if I am wrong) that is designed for tablets. In fact some software from F-Droid looks awful on tablets (everything, including menus, scaled up to fill the screen). I submitted a related feature request: http://f-droid.org/forums/topic/feature-request-tablets/ -- Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>