Category: Fossdroid

Fossdroid get the popularity data (most popular and trending tabs) through Piwik API mostly elaborating the pageviews and the downloads.
In this way it’s possible to list the top 10 best apps/games viewed on Fossdroid.com (last 6 months):

1. 
   Download apks from Google Play Store
2. 
   Block ads/hosts via DNS
3. 
   Play YouTube videos
4. 
   Lightweight YouTube frontend
5. 
   Material Design CyanogenMod 12/12.1 theme
6. 
   Application manager
7. 
   Upgrade your mobile device to a full-fledged tricorder
8. 
   Camera App
9. 
   Manga reader
10. 
    Simple solitaire klondike game

As you can see the Yalp Store wins the battle: it allows Android users to download apks from Play Store without OpenGapps/others (you should create a fake Gmail account because this app violates the Play Store ToS).
The statistics regarding the total number of app-downloads of F-Droid could be/are different because Piwik elaborates the data from fossdroid site and only F-Droid knows the real stats (this explain why F-Droid is not in the first position).

Enjoy!

On F-Droid repository (catalogue of Free and Open Source Software applications for the Android platform) there are 2001 applications (~1420 also on Google Play) organized in 17 categories:

Category	Count	Graph
System	265
Multimedia	242
Games	221
Internet	217
Navigation	135
Science & Education	118
Theming	108
Time	104
Reading	104
Writing	94
Development	92
Connectivity	84
Security	68
Phone & SMS	53
Money	40
Sports & Health	35
Graphics	21

These apps have the source code in these sites:

Source site	Count	Graph
github.com	1589
code.google.com	124
bitbucket.org	53
gitlab.com	52
sourceforge.net	45
gitorious.org	18
launchpad.net	13
other	107

The most used licenses are:

License	Count	Graph
GPLv3	745
Apache2	414
GPLv3+	231
MIT	204
GPLv2	113
GPLv2+	79
NewBSD	36
GPL	22
AGPLv3	15
MPL2	14
WTFPL	13
LGPL	12
PublicDomain	12
FreeBSD	11
other	80

Hi guys,
in these months I received a lot of mails about open sourcing Fossdroid.com.
I was really busy so I postponed every day this moment but today is the day!

You can see the source code on GitHub.

Enjoy!

Hi guys,
we have a Blog! In my spare time I’ve fixed some issues and added a Blog to write about Android World: if you want to became a collaborator write me at .
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the awesome F-Droid team and the people who have taken the time to write me a mail.

Stay tuned!