

Android users can sideload apps without needing special software, though in some cases they have to change a user setting.

This meant that people could “sideload” apps instead of downloading software the conventional way from the App Store, provided they were willing to download Apple’s Xcode developer tools. To give some context, Apple began letting developers release stuff for iPads and iPhones outside of the App Store a few months ago. They say the desktop version of their app has been downloaded more than 15 million times, and that they were caught off guard by Apple putting the kibosh on f.lux for iOS. Herf and his co-founder/wife Lorna worked at Google until 2008, after it acquired their photo storage startup Picasa in 2004. The mobile software seemed to be doing well, until Apple told the makers of f.lux that the iOS iteration violated the Developer Program Agreement.į.lux co-founder Michael Herf told Re/code that Apple representative Richard Chipman explained to him “we were not authorized to use the iOS SDK or Xcode for the purpose we did, and we could not distribute f.lux as we did.” The company recently pushed out a version of its software for devices running Apple iOS 9.

It will give your desktop screen warmer colors at later hours of the day, to make it easier on your eyes when you go to sleep. F.lux is a popular bit of software that adjusts the brightness of your screen based on the time of day.
