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# Serve And Share Apps From Your Phone With Fdroid
This can speed up the process of updating apps on your devices, especially if fdroid is slow.
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## Step 3: you are born on third base, find the menu item for *Swap apps* on phone one
### Open fdroid, and navigate to the menu by touching three dots in upper right hand corner of the screen. Select *Swap apps*.
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![alt text ](Screenshot_20170628-115844.png )
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## Step 4: enable the repo server on phone one
### On the next screen toggle on *Visible via Wi-Fi*
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![alt text ](Screenshot_20170628-131016.png )
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## Step 5: a small step for your android
### At the bottom of the screen select *SCAN QR CODE*
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![alt text ](Screenshot_20170628-131806.png )
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## Step 6: choose which apps to serve from phone one
### At the next screen *Choose Apps* you want to xerve I mean serve and then touch the -> right arrow to proceed
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![alt text ](Screenshot_20170628-132029.png )
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## Step 7: another small step for your android
### Touch the -> right arrow again, do it.
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![alt text ](Screenshot_20170628-133544.png )
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## Ocho: <- this means step eight
### Touch the -> right arrow until you are coming here
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![alt text ](Screenshot_20170628-134328.png )
Notice you can use either a qr code or a local url, so grab one of your other phones.
[Privacy Friendly Qr Scanner ](https://github.com/SecUSo/privacy-friendly-qr-scanner ) appears to be a good Qr scanner,
but of course you can key in the url by hand too.
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## Step 9: find the menu item for *Repositories* on phone two
### On your other phone open fdroid, navigate to menu by selecting the 3 dots in the upper right hand corner and choose *Repositories*
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![alt text ](Screenshot_20170628-142255.png )
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## Step 10: (temporarily) toggle off the remote repos on phone two
### Toggle all the current repos off and then if you want to key in the new local repo url by hand touch the + plus in the upper right hand corner
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![alt text ](Screenshot_20170628-143639.png )
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## Step 11 A: key in the local repo url by hand on phone two
### After touching the + plus button in [Step Ten](#step-ten) on phone two, you can fill in the url address that corresponds to the photo in [Ocho](#ocho)
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![alt text ](Screenshot_20170628-152552.png )
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## Step 12 A: or scan in the local repo url with qr code on phone two
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If you prefer not to key in the url by hand, on phone two touch the
home button and then open your qr-scanning application and scan the
qr code on phone one, as seen in photo [Ocho ](#ocho ). The qr-scanning
app will direct you to open fdroid, and your result will be the same as
the photo in [Step Eleven A ](#step-eleven-a )
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## Step 13: profit from moar faster local downloads
### On phone two you can now download and install apps and updates from phone one, and the download speed will be much faster than from the internet.
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![alt text ](Screenshot_20170628-153026.png )
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## Step 14: how to remember all this?
### You can bookmark.
In fact, you can add a shortcut icon directly to
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[this page ](http://trentsonlinedocs.xyz/serve_and_share_apps_from_your_phone_with_fdroid ),
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on your home screen,
as seen here with IceCat, a debranded build of the latest extended-support-release
of FireFox for Android.
![alt text ](Screenshot_20170628-161737.png )
Or you can clone [the git repo ](https://github.com/TrentSPalmer/trentdocs_website )
which this site automatically builds itself from.