Services to allow F-Droid to securely install and update apps

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F-Droid Privileged Extension OTA App Cloning app description

Note: F-Droid requires root privileges to install Privileged Extension as a system priv-app.

https://www.androidfreeware.net/download-f-droid-apk.html 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 dont 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 https://www.androidfreeware.net/download-f-droid-apk.html.privileged, and that provides updates after this OTA package is installed.


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Old Versions

F-Droid Privileged Extension OTA icon

df8ede3 APK

March 18, 2021

F-Droid Privileged Extension OTA icon

50ed242 APK

November 23, 2019