Android customers will have the ability to bypass Google by downloading Zashi from F-Droid or GitHub! Zcash presents monetary privateness and sovereignty, and we wish to be certain 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 unbiased app retailer that prioritizes open-source, privacy-respecting software program. Not like conventional app shops, it doesn’t observe or profile customers, and it permits for utterly nameless downloads. By releasing Zashi on F-Droid, we’re giving Zcashers extra management over their digital footprint, guaranteeing they will use their pockets with out pointless information assortment, and with out being topic to centralized app retailer management.
- Privateness First – No monitoring and no pointless information 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 determine and mitigate potential threats to our infrastructure, processes, and the third-party providers we rely on.
F-Droid Launch Caveats
As a result of F-Droid requires that every 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 obtainable, they rely upon API keys that may’t be revealed, and needed to be excluded from this launch.
The F-Droid and Google Play Retailer releases are separate apps and don’t share pockets information. You may set up and run each on the similar time with totally different seed phrases. If it is advisable to 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 wish to bypass Google, however need full performance or just don’t wish to anticipate the app to develop into out there on F-Droid, a binary launch of Zashi for Android is obtainable on GitHub immediately.
This is similar launch that we publish to the Google Play Retailer. It consists of all of Zashi’s newest options and integrations and is ideal for customers who wish to decide out of Google however nonetheless need the complete Zashi expertise. To put in it you’ll need to know the way 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 vital restrictions—together with a minimal of 1 million downloads previously calendar 12 months for net distribution. Whereas it’s technically potential to construct variations of Zashi for iOS just 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 may be distributed via various app marketplaces.
Select How You Zashi
With these new obtain choices, Zashi shall be accessible to Zcashers that wish to use the app on their very own phrases:
Your pockets. Your selection.
Glad transacting.