An attempt to bring free software alternatives to Europe that focus on and improve privacy. An alternative to closed ecosystems Mobifree, funded by Big Tech’s own funds from the European Commission and working with important partners such as F-Droid, offers alternative solutions to operating systems, application stores, cloud services, messaging applications and email servers.

We will tell you everything that this project proposes and how the collaboration with F-Droid will work. It’s a great initiative that focuses on allowing users to choose alternatives away from the Google and Apple ecosystems.

F-Droid will play a crucial role in Android

Earlier this week, F-Droid announced its integration into the Mobifree ecosystem. If you’ve been in the world of alternative app stores you’ll know this: F-Droid is one of the most popular. In fact, it is one of the first solutions I usually install on mobile phones without Google Services.

F-Droid becomes part of Mobifree, a mobile ecosystem that includes all kinds of software solutions outside the Big Tech circle. Developers of this app store will be responsible for “creating a decentralized distribution system for developers to provide applications to Android users.”

In other words, any app store will be able to use these repositories to provide users with a method to install these applications. A much more collaborative way of workingAlternative solutions to Play Store can use F-Droid repositories.

Much more than application alternatives

Although the arrival of F-Droid on Mobifree is the news of the week in the Open Source world, now is the ideal time to explain exactly what this startup wants to offer.

Mobifree is a project with several branches, all focused on free mobile development. Some of the areas it works in are directly related to Android alternatives as we know them, and e/OS is proof of this.

Maybe this system doesn’t sound familiar to you, but FairPhone certainly does. The operating system of these phones, which have a five-year warranty and focus on durability, is e/OS. This is a system that cannot only be used on FairPhone, but can be downloaded by any user on the list of compatible devices.

Advantages? A ROM with its own search engine, Google services replaced by microG (a much lighter suite of Google Apps), geolocation via Mozilla not Google, elimination of any Google trackers, and an account in the Murena cloud for backups.

Speaking of MikroG, you should know that thanks to this open source project, Mobile phones like Huawei’s may have Google services.

Mobifree is also working to offer alternative app stores, navigation apps and much more.

Image | fairphone

in Xataka | Fairphone 5: The most sustainable mobile phone steps up in cameras and home repair options