diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 09d688e4..84326c37 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -103,12 +103,16 @@ debugTests:
 connected 27 default x86_64:
   <<: *connected-template
 
+
+#inspired from https://gitlab.com/mvglasow/satstat/-/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml
 fdroid build:
   stage: build
-  image: registry.gitlab.com/fdroid/ci-images-client:latest
+  image: registry.gitlab.com/mvglasow/ci-images-server:latest
   tags:
     - server_artectrex
+  allow_failure: true
   artifacts:
+    # name: "${CI_PROJECT_PATH}_${CI_JOB_STAGE}_${CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME}_${CI_COMMIT_SHA}"
     paths:
       - signed/
     when: always
@@ -117,46 +121,15 @@ fdroid build:
   cache:
     key: "$CI_JOB_NAME"
     paths:
-      - .gradle
       - .android
+      - .gradle
   script:
-    # Put the correct versionName and versionCode in the .fdroid.yml
+      # Put the correct versionName and versionCode in the .fdroid.yml
     - sed -e "s/\${versionName}/$(grep "versionName " app/build.gradle | awk '{print $2}' | tr -d \")$(grep "versionCode" app/build.gradle -m 1 | awk '{print $2}')/" -e "s/\${versionCode}/$(grep "versionCode" app/build.gradle -m 1 | awk '{print $2}')/" .fdroid.yml.template > .fdroid.yml
     - rm .fdroid.yml.template
-    - test -d build || mkdir build
-    - test -d fdroidserver || mkdir fdroidserver
-    - git ls-remote https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver.git master
-    - curl --silent https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/-/archive/master/fdroidserver-master.tar.gz
-      | tar -xz --directory=fdroidserver --strip-components=1
-    - export PATH="`pwd`/fdroidserver:$PATH"
-    - export PYTHONPATH="$CI_PROJECT_DIR/fdroidserver:$CI_PROJECT_DIR/fdroidserver/examples"
-    - export PYTHONUNBUFFERED=true
-
-    - bash fdroidserver/buildserver/setup-env-vars $ANDROID_HOME
-    - adduser --disabled-password --gecos "" vagrant
-    - ln -s $CI_PROJECT_DIR/fdroidserver /home/vagrant/fdroidserver
-    - mkdir -p /vagrant/cache
-    - wget -q https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.6.2-bin.zip --output-document=/vagrant/cache/gradle-5.6.2-bin.zip
-    # Check sha256 of the gradle build
-    - echo '32fce6628848f799b0ad3205ae8db67d0d828c10ffe62b748a7c0d9f4a5d9ee0 /vagrant/cache/gradle-5.6.2-bin.zip' | sha256sum -c
-    - bash fdroidserver/buildserver/provision-gradle
-    - bash fdroidserver/buildserver/provision-apt-get-install https://deb.debian.org/debian
-    - source /etc/profile.d/bsenv.sh
-    - apt-get dist-upgrade
-
-    # install fdroidserver from git, with deps from Debian, until fdroidserver
-    # is stable enough to include all the things needed here
-    - apt-get install -t stretch-backports
-      fdroidserver
-      python3-asn1crypto
-      python3-ruamel.yaml
-      yamllint
-    - apt-get purge fdroidserver
-    - export GRADLE_USER_HOME=$PWD/.gradle
-    # each fdroid build --on-server run expects sudo, then uninstalls it
+    # each `fdroid build --on-server` run expects sudo, then uninstalls it
     - set -x
     - apt-get install sudo
-    - fdroid fetchsrclibs --verbose
     # this builds the latest version of the app from its source dir, using the build recipe in .fdroid.yml
     - fdroid build --verbose --on-server --no-tarball
     # create a keystore if we don’t have one