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 wish to be certain that Zashi upholds these values, giving customers better management over how and the place they entry the app.
Zashi for Android is out there on GitHub.
Zashi for Android has been submitted to F-Droid and is pending approval.
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 observe 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, making certain 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, making certain neighborhood 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 neighborhood to construct it and confirm our work. This helps establish and mitigate potential threats to our infrastructure and processes, together with these 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 right now. 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 knowledge. You possibly can set up and run each on the similar time with completely 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 watch for the app to turn out to be out there on F-Droid, a binary launch of Zashi for Android is obtainable on GitHub at this time.
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 choose out of Google however nonetheless need the total Zashi expertise. To put in it you will have to know easy methods 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 yr 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 may be distributed by way of different app marketplaces.
Select How You Zashi
With these new obtain choices, Zashi can be accessible to Zcashers that wish to use the app on their very own phrases:
Your pockets. Your alternative.
Blissful transacting.
