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Android 11 came out very recently 1, so there are very few people who have managed to try it on their smartphone. However, those who managed to install the latest version of Android may have noticed something decidedly annoying and worrying. There are indeed gods problems with some apps from F-Droid with Android 11!
Initially this really caught a lot of people off guard. The applications present on F-Droid which do not currently work on Android 11In fact, they are different and some of these are also widely used. In fact, we are talking about apps like Netguard (of which we also have talked about it a little while ago), FairEmail and OpenVPN among the most important. As always, we don't want to bore you with technical reasons, this is not the right place. Basically there is a problem with the version used to validate apps: you can no longer use v1 of apksig. It's a solvable problem and you can follow the discussion on GitLab if you are interested.
The problems of F-Droid with Android 11
This caught several developers off guard and some apps, like the ones listed above, literally stopped working. During the update and/or installation of the app an error is given, in Italian it says: “Error installing NetGuard. Installation failed due to an unknown error“.
If you have updated to Android 11 therefore it is your app downloaded from F-Droid it doesn't work anymore don't throw your phone out the window. Not right away at least. If it is a little-known app you can notify the developer and help him fix the problem, perhaps he was not aware of it. For example, we warned the developer of the launcher called Olauncher that it had precisely this problem that he was unaware of 2.
F-Droid however he opened an issue on GitLab 3 and alerted everyone up Twitter 4 come on Mastodon 5. So don't lose hope and confidently wait for the update of the apps with problems!
UPDATE: the latest update of FairEmail it might have solved the problem, F-Droid asks you to try updating it.
- Android 11[↩]
- Olauncher on F-Droid[↩]
- F-Droid on GitLab[↩]
- https://twitter.com/fdroidorg/status/1303438306223374336[↩]
- F-Droid on Mastodon[↩]
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