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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.
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Android Studio is the primary toolkit for developing native android apps. If you have no background in programming, there are some more visual tools like Budibase (open source) or Softr (closed source), but you are likely to run into difficulty getting them to apply logic the way you'd like.
If you're a tinkerer, then honestly I'd look into learning more about Android Studio and Kotlin, the language most used these days for app development on Android.
Android Studio is proprietary
Does that mean there is a free alternative?
You can use IntelliJ Community to develop Android apps with an Android plugin.
Android Studio is still free, while proprietary. And Intellij community is also proprietary, pretty much the same thing?
IntelliJ has source available here under Apache-2 license. AFAIK only Pro edition is proprietary.
Android Studio has no source but there is one for Android IntelliJ plugin here.
Maybe I'm missing something but to me these cases are pretty different.
Oh wow, i didn't know they opened those sources, that is nice.