your app for f-droid

[theScrabi]

Hello,

since your App is free software, and seem to not have any bindings to nonfree libraries, you could easily promote it to pecome part of the f-droid repository.
https://f-droid.org/

rgds schabi

[theScrabi]

I could write a f-droid buildscript for you, but in order to do that youd have to tag new releases.

[theScrabi]

No to pure :( U use app index, therefore no support for fdroid. Please consider a FLOSS version without com.google.android.gms:play-services-appindexin, also no commins.io would be helpfull if you realy wanted to push on f-droid.

[SimonSchubert]

Thank you for the interest, if I get the time at some point I will do it.

[theScrabi]

I can help you create the f-droid build script, but in order to do that, you might have to get rid of some libraries:

• play-services-appindexing will definetly not work
• org.apache.commons:commons-io might cause trouble

as I said, please consider an F-droid fork. The rest can be done by me.

[Poussinou]

This app on fdroid would be something awesome!

[SimonSchubert]

@theScrabi Sorry that that it took such a long time(3 years..) to get back to this issue.

But finally I managed to remove the google play services, even without a special f-droid fork. Since my goal is to make the app even more lightweight and performant.

Could you have a look again if the current state of the master branch compliance with the f-droid guidelines?

[Poussinou]

I'm not sure we support build.gradle.kts yet.

Could you rollback to the good old build.gradle ?

[SimonSchubert]

In may we successfully released(https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/issues/931#note_168935002) my other app on an f-droid private repo(https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.inspiredandroid.newsout). It was build with gradle.kts, so I think and hope it is fully supported. :) Since I would like to avoid to rollback.

[Poussinou]

@IzzySoft just took the apk attached in the release section without building the app by himself, it's not the same to build the app from source on the F-Droid servers to put it in the official repo. Newsout isn't in the official repo btw.

I like this app too, and I really would like to see it in the official repo, but it probably won't be possible yet with the build.gradle.kts file. I understand that you don't want to rollback everything. Could you attach an apk in the release section with the last release in the meantime?

[IzzySoft]

@Poussinou is correct. And while support for .kts is already on our wish-list, it will probably be a while until it's available at F-Droid. Another show-stopper for the official repo was Firebase (GCM and Analytics) – which I'm glad to see you just removed \o/

So, with an .apk attached to releases/ as suggested by Poussinou, I gladly take your app into my repo until .kts support is ready at F-Droid. Just ping me when that release is ready 😉

[SimonSchubert]

Ok got it. .kts build scripts are not supported yet. But it's cool to see that it's in the pipeline. Thanks for the explanation.

I will try to push a release with .apk during the weekend.

[IzzySoft]

Great! Just give me a ping when it's there. Updates are a bit faster with my repo (max 24h if you're extremely unlucky and publish at the same time as the repo sync runs).

[IzzySoft]

Just found the last notification while cleaning up my mail: looks like .kts is supported now. So maybe your RFP is faster than your APK here 🙊

[Lonerider2010]

What is the current status of this project in F-Droid?

[IzzySoft]

There was an RFP opened yesterday. The bot check returned green, but it would be nice if @SimonSchubert could establish Fastlane structures here in the app's repo (details behind the link; mainly for screenshots and so summary/description etc. can be maintained with the app itself). Double value: the very same can be used to publish to Play, if wanted.