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In 1993, he co-founded development house The Software Refinery, [4] which closed in 2002. [5] In recent years he has contributed to various open source software projects. [ 6 ] In 2010, he founded the F-Droid software repository, a catalogue of FOSS applications for the Android platform.
Android phones, like this Nexus S running Replicant, allow installation of apps from the Play Store, F-Droid store or directly via APK files.. This is a list of notable applications (apps) that run on the Android platform which meet guidelines for free software and open-source software.
F-Droid is a free and open source app store and software repository for Android, serving a similar function to the Google Play store. The main repository, hosted by the project, contains only free and open source apps.
Pages in category "Free and open-source Android software" The following 115 pages are in this category, out of 115 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A Dalvik-powered phone. The relative merits of stack machines versus register-based approaches are a subject of ongoing debate. [17]Generally, stack-based machines must use instructions to load data on the stack and manipulate that data, and, thus, require more instructions than register machines to implement the same high-level code, but the instructions in a register machine must encode the ...
This is a list of Android distributions, Android-based operating systems (OS) commonly referred to as Custom ROMs or Android ROMs, forked from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) without Google Play Services included officially in some or all markets, yet maintained independent coverage in notable Android-related sources.
Generally, the phones included on this list contain copyleft software other than the Linux kernel, and minimal closed-source component drivers (see section above). Android-based devices do not appear on this list because of the heavy use of proprietary components, particularly drivers and applications. [7] [1] [8]
Sailfish can run both native Sailfish and Android software simultaneously, with the user switching between them on the fly. [43] Starting with Alien Dalvik 8.1 (also called "Android App Support" since then), it uses LXC [44] to improve security by better isolation, in the same way the open source Android compatibility layer Anbox is doing.