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F-Droid: the definitive un-Play Store
An app store for Android that appeals to FOSS-heads. What's not to love?

Matt Nawrocki Matt Nawrocki
F-Droid: the definitive un-Play Store

Most Android devices (at least those that are decidedly not made by Huawei) come equipped with the Google Play Store. Sure, there are notable outliers, like Amazon Fire tablets, which are somewhat locked into Amazon's parallel app ecosystem, but those are the exceptions that prove the rule. While other device vendors and mobile carriers have historically offered their own app stores, there's also a carrier/network independent distribution system for Android apps: Say hello to F-Droid, the free and open alternative to commercial app stores.

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Google's new Blocks for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive lets you model and share 3D objects with VR

Ryne Hager Ryne Hager
Google's new Blocks for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive lets you model and share 3D objects with VR

Today Google has announced Blocks, a new tool for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift for making 3D objects. Think Google's Tilt Brush, but with a 3D spin. As the name might suggest, Google's motivation seems to have been making 3D modeling easier for everyone. Crafting objects literally with your hands should make Blocks much more approachable for users compared to the regular keyboard-and-mouse-driven method on a 2D screen. 

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FaceRepo Is A Gigantic Collection Of Facer Skins For Round And Square Android Wear Watches

FaceRepo Is A Gigantic Collection Of Facer Skins For Round And Square Android Wear Watches

Michael Crider Michael Crider

As we've noted before, Facer is pretty cool: it's a way to make or load custom watch faces and easily apply them to your Android Wear device. While the Facer app has its own built-in gallery of submitted watch faces, FaceRepo is an impressively varied alternative that allows you to browse watch faces on the web. User-submitted designs are split into round and square watch faces for the Moto 360 and G Watch/Gear Live, respectively. They should work with future models as well.

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To apply the faces, just download the ZIP file on any single entry and open it with the Facer app's built-in file browser.

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ADT (Android Dev Tools) Source Code Commits Suggesting Imminent Gingerbread SDK Release?

ADT (Android Dev Tools) Source Code Commits Suggesting Imminent Gingerbread SDK Release?

Artem Russakovskii Artem Russakovskii

Today, I was looking at the Android Development Tools (ADT) commit history, as I normally do on a Tuesday morning at 3am, and I noticed something that made my heart skip a few beats. But let me back up for a second.

Every Android SDK release is normally accompanied by an ADT release that adds support for the new functionality and fixes existing bugs. ADT, in turn, is an Eclipse plugin, which is essentially a set of developer tools for one of the best free open source editors out there (that's Eclipse), which also happens to be the IDE of choice of Android core developers.

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