Exciting News: Cake Wallet and Monero.com Now Available on F-Droid!

We are excited to announce a significant quality of life improvement for our Cake Wallet / Monero.com Android users! Cake Wallet and Monero.com are now officially accessible through F-Droid, fulfilling a highly anticipated feature request dating back to 2018. F-Droid offers a convenient way to keep your app versions updated without relying on the Google Play Store.

To acquire Cake Wallet and Monero.com via our F-Droid repository, the process is straightforward:

  1. Install the F-Droid app for Android.

  2. Visit fdroid.cakelabs.com.

  3. In the F-Droid app settings, navigate to Repositories, then click the + button. Type or paste the following URL: https://fdroid.cakelabs.com, along with the recommended fingerprint.

Embark on your enhanced Cake Wallet journey via F-Droid! Rest assured, Cake Wallet and Monero.com will continue to be available on the Google Play Store and our GitHub repository.

Stay tuned, as we have more updates and features in the pipeline! 🍰

Cake Wallet (Multi-Coin Wallet)

Monero.com by Cake Wallet (Monero-Only Wallet)

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5 points

It’s not 90% of the work done, getting listed on the official fdroid repo is a pita. From a user perspective it’s nearly the same, you don’t have to deal with manual update nor with gplay. Both of the other monero wallets available through f-droid do the same and have their own seperate repository.

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14 points

Being in the main repo has some major benefits from the users perspective.

  1. I know it’s actually FOSS

  2. I know no extra binaries or libraries “accidentally” leak in

  3. I know effort has gone into reproducable builds, and if I ever need to fork the project the build chain works externally.

  4. No special signing key gymnastics baked in

Net net being in the main repository is a huge endorsement to the open source health of a project

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True and I believe it helps discovery of the app. When searching Monero on the official repo you get nothing so cake wallet would be the first. Its also a convenience for the users who do not want to go around and adding repos for seperate projects.

Anyhow them being on F-Droid repo was my encourager to try the app out. Very glad for this update.

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