Antimine

From the README: “Antimine is a minesweeper-like puzzle game. The objective is to flag the spaces with mines to make the field a safer place without exploding any of them. You win the game when you’ve flagged every mine in the minefield. Be careful not to trigger one!” It is made by Lucas Nunes, a Brazilian developer, and first appeared on Google Play in 2016.

What it has

• Levels Beginner (9×9, 10 mines), Intermediate, Expert, Master and Legend (100×100, 2,000 mines), custom boards, and modes with growing or fixed board sizes.
• Help when you need it: tips that reveal a mine, an assistant that flags mines you have already found, opening several squares by tapping a number, continuing after hitting a mine, and retrying a lost game.
• Four control styles, with adjustable long-press time and optional question marks.
• Themes and tile styles, including a classic grey look, dynamic colours and a black theme for AMOLED screens.
• Statistics, saved games you can resume, split-screen and zoom.

In this build, the premium features are unlocked, with 100 tips instead of 25, five save slots instead of one, and a game history. The README also lists Wear OS and Android Auto, but those parts aren’t in F-Droid’s build.

What goes online

Nothing; the app has no internet permission. See the questions above for crash reports, which go through your email app only if you send them.

There are donation prompts: a Donation button in the main menu, and a banner after games, “If you like this game, consider making a donation.”, until you tap it once. They link to PayPal and GitHub Sponsors, and on phones set to Brazil the donation screen also offers Pix.

About this file

• This is F-Droid’s build of Antimine 17.6.3, compiled from the developer’s source and signed with F-Droid’s key; F-Droid published it on 8 December 2023. Its changes: a fix to the tips, and build changes. The developer’s own 17.5.0 APK on GitHub has the same package name but his own key, so it and this file can’t replace each other.
• The package name is dev.lucanlm.antimine, without the “s” of the developer’s name; a comment in the build file: “There”s a typo on F-Droid release :(”. The developer on other sources: “If you got it from Play Store or F-Droid it should not have any malware. I can’t guarantee the same for any other store.” This is F-Droid’s file, unchanged.
• The open-source app hasn’t changed since 2024. Open reports on this version include the no-guessing one above, the Back button revealing all the mines after a loss, overlapping text in the menu, and taps sometimes not registering.
• The 9.4 MB file runs on Android 5.0 and later, on ARM and x86, 32- and 64-bit. It declares 2 permissions: vibration, and an internal one that Android libraries add. Our scan lists ACRA, the library behind the email crash reports.
• The app is translated into Brazilian Portuguese, 145 of its 151 texts.
• The screenshots are the developer’s own, from January 2023, a few versions earlier.

Licences

Antimine is licensed under the GPL-3.0. Two parts aren’t covered by a stated licence:

• Music and sound effects: the developer “contracted a composer”, and the music is credited in the app to Tatyana Jacques. The project states no licence for the music or the 20 sound effects.
• The mine generator is adapted from Mines in Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection: most of its comments match the original word for word. That code is under the MIT licence, which asks for its copyright notice to be kept; Antimine’s files and its in-app licence list don’t include it.

The emoji faces in the win and loss dialogs are credited to Noto Emoji.

CPU types in this build: arm64-v8a (64-bit ARM, almost every phone since 2017); armeabi-v7a (32-bit ARM, older and budget phones); x86 (32-bit Intel, emulators); x86_64 (64-bit Intel, emulators and Chromebooks).

Versions currently kept in the F-Droid repository. We host and check only the newest one.