F-Droid Privileged Extension

F-Droid Privileged Extension

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

F-Droid System

Description

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

https://f-droid.org/packages/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

Instead of this build, most users will want to install the
"Over-The-Air" (OTA) update ZIP file is called
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged.ota. This is here to update
Privileged Extension when it has been installed using the OTA ZIP.

What’s new (0.2.13)

* new translations: Catalan Croatian Gaelic Italian Tamil

Versions

Version Date Size Requires Android Download
0.2.13 current
1008525a17b4f6a9…
2022-01-21 45 KB API 8
0.2.12
9c3f84f6ad3857fc…
2021-03-17 38 KB API 8
0.2.7
429bde81414c8779…
2017-09-24 36 KB API 8

Permissions

What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.

  • INSTALL_PACKAGES
  • DELETE_PACKAGES

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