Android customers will have the ability to bypass Google by downloading Zashi from F-Droid or GitHub! Zcash gives monetary privateness and sovereignty, and we need to make sure that Zashi upholds these values, giving customers better management over how and the place they entry the app.
Why F-Droid?
F-Droid is an impartial app retailer that prioritizes open-source, privacy-respecting software program. In contrast to conventional app shops, it doesn’t monitor or profile customers, and it permits for fully nameless downloads. By releasing Zashi on F-Droid, we’re giving Zcashers extra management over their digital footprint, guaranteeing they’ll use their pockets with out pointless knowledge assortment, and with out being topic to centralized app retailer management.
Privateness First – No monitoring and no pointless knowledge assortment.
Clear & Open-Supply – F-Droid solely permits absolutely open-source apps, guaranteeing group oversight.
Different App Distribution – Android customers can set up and replace Zashi with out relying on a centralized app retailer.
The F-Droid construct for Zashi is totally reproducible. We encourage the group to construct it and confirm our work. This helps establish and mitigate potential threats to our infrastructure, processes, and the third-party companies we rely on.
F-Droid Launch Caveats
As a result of F-Droid requires that each one apps be 100% open-source, the F-Droid model of Zashi doesn’t embody Coinbase and Flexa integrations at the moment. Though the supply for these integrations is on the market, they rely upon API keys that may’t be printed, and needed to be excluded from this launch.
The F-Droid and Google Play Retailer releases are separate apps and don’t share pockets knowledge. You’ll be able to set up and run each on the similar time with totally different seed phrases. If it is advisable transfer a pockets from one app to the opposite, first again up the seed phrase, then restore it within the different app.
Need All Options? Obtain Zashi from GitHub.
For Android customers who need to bypass Google, however need full performance or just don’t need to await the app to develop into out there on F-Droid, a binary launch of Zashi for Android is on the market on GitHub immediately.
This is identical launch that we publish to the Google Play Retailer. It contains all of Zashi’s newest options and integrations and is ideal for customers who need to choose out of Google however nonetheless need the total Zashi expertise. To put in it you will have to know tips on how to side-load apk recordsdata, for which tutorials can be found.
Why No GitHub Model for iOS?
Though Apple is now required to permit side-loading of iOS apps for customers within the European Union, this comes with important restrictions—together with a minimal of 1 million downloads previously calendar 12 months for internet distribution. Whereas it’s technically attainable to construct variations of Zashi for iOS much like what we’ve delivered for Android, Apple’s phrases nonetheless impose limitations on distribution and installs. We’re investigating whether or not Zashi for iOS might be distributed by various app marketplaces.
Select How You Zashi
With these new obtain choices, Zashi shall be accessible to Zcashers that need to use the app on their very own phrases:
Your pockets. Your alternative.
Glad transacting.
