# 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.  
## 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*.
![alt text](Screenshot_20170628-115844.png)
## Step 4: enable the repo server on phone one
### On the next screen toggle on *Visible via Wi-Fi*
![alt text](Screenshot_20170628-131016.png)
## Step 5: a small step for your android
### At the bottom of the screen select *SCAN QR CODE*
![alt text](Screenshot_20170628-131806.png)
## 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
![alt text](Screenshot_20170628-132029.png)
## Step 7: another small step for your android
### Touch the -> right arrow again, do it.
![alt text](Screenshot_20170628-133544.png)
## Ocho: <- this means step eight
### Touch the -> right arrow until you are coming here
![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.
## 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*
![alt text](Screenshot_20170628-142255.png)
## 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
![alt text](Screenshot_20170628-143639.png)
## 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)
![alt text](Screenshot_20170628-152552.png)
## Step 12 A: or scan in the local repo url with qr code on phone two
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)
## 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.
![alt text](Screenshot_20170628-153026.png)
## Step 14: how to remember all this?
### You can bookmark.
In fact, you can add a shortcut icon directly to 
[this page](http://trentsonlinedocs.xyz/serve_and_share_apps_from_your_phone_with_fdroid),
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.