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Rebrand WireGuard Android to Wire VPN
- Rename package and all Java/Kotlin sources: com.wireguard.android -> page.onram.wirevpn
- applicationId -> page.onram.wirevpn, version 1.0.20260910 (520)
- New launcher icon: dark circle, white padlock with bold W
- App name 'Wire VPN' in all locales; remove donate preference
- Release signing from KEYSTORE_* env vars (CI)
- F-Droid v2: scripts/fdroid_metadata.py
- GitHub/Gitea Actions workflow: auto-build signed APK + F-Droid
  metadata/signature on every new release, attach to the release
- README + NOTICE (license inventory)
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Wire VPN for Android

A fork of WireGuard for Android, rebranded as Wire VPN.

Package: page.onram.wirevpn · Available from our F-Droid repository on release.

Wire VPN is an Android GUI for WireGuard. It opportunistically uses the kernel implementation, and falls back to using the non-root userspace implementation.

What changed from upstream

  • App name rebranded from WireGuard to Wire VPN
  • New launcher icon (padlock with a bold W in a circle)
  • Application ID changed to page.onram.wirevpn (Java/Kotlin package is page.onram.wirevpn)
  • GitHub Actions pipeline: every new Git release automatically builds a signed release APK and produces F-Droid v2 repository artifacts
  • Upstream in-app auto-updater and donation links removed (we distribute via our own F-Droid repo)

Building

$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://git.obahan.xyz/frank/wirevpn.git
$ cd wirevpn
$ ./gradlew assembleRelease

The build compiles the tunnel backend natively (CMake + NDK) and the userspace WireGuard implementation in Go (Go 1.24.3 is fetched and hash-checked by the build automatically).

To sign with a keystore, export:

export KEYSTORE_FILE=/path/to/keystore.jks
export KEYSTORE_PASSWORD=...
export KEY_ALIAS=...
export KEY_PASSWORD=...

Releases are cut by creating a Git tag/release on main (e.g. v1.0.x); the release.yml GitHub Action builds and publishes the artifacts.

Translating

This project uses Crowdin upstream; translations in ui/src/main/res/values-*/ are carried over from the WireGuard project.

Licences

See NOTICE.md for the full list. The app code is Apache-2.0. This project is a fork of the WireGuard Android app and is not affiliated with WireGuard LLC.