Die Dozenten der Informatik-Institute der Technischen Universität Braunschweig laden im Rahmen des Informatik-Kolloquiums zu folgendem Vortrag ein.

Daniel Martí, F-Droid Project: F-Droid: Android without Google Play

Beginn: 16.10.2015, 15:00 Uhr Ort: TU Braunschweig, Informatikzentrum, Mühlenpfordtstraße 23, 1. OG, Hörsaal M 161 Webseite: http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/cal/kolloq/2015-10-16-marti.html Kontakt: Dominik Schürmann

F-Droid is an app distribution platform for Android. It is based on the repository system known from Linux distros - anyone can set up a repository with apps, and users can download and install apps from it.

The main difference between F-Droid and other app stores alternative to Google Play is that F-Droid is completely Free Software. This makes the project a key component of Android as an open source and decentralized system.

Our main repository has over 1,500 apps with more than 60,000 regular users. This talk will mainly focus on how the Android client is written and all the challenges it faces. For example:

How do you make it scale to thousands of apps at a time? How can you make it light on network usage? How can you keep it secure? How can it be a package manager on its own? (regular apps can't do this)