 Over the next couple days, I'm going to do some videos on Android and surviving Android just talking about some of the applications and some of the ways I do things on an Android device. So today I'm going to look at fDroid. If you're not familiar with fDroid, which I'm sure a lot of you are, fDroid is a package manager. It's a software center, wherever you want to call it, that deals in completely open source software. The application itself is open source and every package in it is open source and it's really nice when you go there. It may not, it obviously doesn't have nearly as many packages as like the Android store, but this would be a replacement for that. And even though it's limited, you know that everything in it is open source. When you go to it, it tells you what license it's under, it even gives you warnings even though that's open source. If it's using a non-free service, like maybe it's using something to grab videos from YouTube, it will warn you of that. You can go to the fDroid website, search through the packages and download them individually or a better option might be to actually install the fDroid app, which is free and open source. Download that and that way at least you're getting updates on your system. If you download packages individually from the website, you're going to have to manually go and update them. fDroid is a great place. Now I'm one of those people, I have very, very few applications on my phone. I try to not install anything because almost everything can be done through a shell that I have on here that I'll talk about in the next video or through the web browser. I try to keep all my devices, but especially my phone, very clean and clear and have very minimal stuff installed on it. But even so, fDroid is a great place to go and you know that everything on there is open source. I also trust it more than I do the Android Store. I'm pretty sure these guys are very diligent about checking out the packages and where they come from and who's maintaining them, where something like the Android Play Store, the Google Play Store, I'm pretty sure I posted stuff there. Google doesn't know who I am. They don't have access to my source code. How do they know what my applications are doing? I mean, the stuff I posted wasn't malicious, but it could have been. Nobody knows until, you know, it's too late. Not that something couldn't slip through here, but I definitely trust it more. The source code is all available and I'm pretty sure they're pretty strict about what gets in there. So fDroid, Google it, it will come up. You can go to their website and you can either download packages individually or install their application and that way you make sure you get updates, especially when it comes to security updates is an important thing there. So check that out fDroid. It's the first step in installing applications that you might need. Thanks for watching and I hope that you have a great day.