F-Droid Privileged Extension OTA
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as a system "priv-app".
org.fdroid.fdroid can make use of system privileges or permissions
to install, update and remove applications on its own. The only way to
obtain those privileges is to become a system app.
This is where the Privileged Extension comes in - being a separate app
and much smaller, it can be installed as a system app and communicate
with the main app via AIDL IPC.
This has several advantages:
* Reduced disk usage in the system partition
* System updates don't remove F-Droid
* The process of installing into system via root is safer
This is packaged as an OTA (Over-The-Air) update ZIP file. It must be
installed using TWRP or other Android recovery that can flash updates
to the system from the /data/data/org.fdroid.fdroid folder on the
/data partition. The standalone APK is called
org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged, and that provides updates after this
OTA package is installed.
- Author: F-Droid
- License: Apache License 2.0
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Although APK downloads are available below to give you the choice, you should be aware that by installing that way you will not receive update notifications and it's a less secure way to download. We recommend that you install the F-Droid client and use that.
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This version requires Android ? or newer.
It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Download ZIP 5.5 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log
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This version requires Android ? or newer.
It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
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This version requires Android ? or newer.
It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Download ZIP 5.6 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log
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