F-Droid Support?

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F-Droid Support?

Closed this issue 3 years ago · 6 comments

F-Droid Support?

Answer 1 · 2021-09-03T17:48:35.000Z

We definitely should support F-Droid. Looks like it has some good API documentation: https://f-droid.org/en/2021/02/05/apis-for-all-the-things.html

Answer 2 · 2021-09-08T06:52:42.000Z

@Hainish we're also happy to help you get going with the APIs. You can find us here https://f-droid.org/en/about/#contact

Answer 3 · 2021-09-08T07:44:27.000Z

the api just goes like this:
get https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/raw/master/metadata/ID_HERE.yml
parse with yaml parser
get CurrentVersionCode
get http://f-droid.org/repo/ID_HERE.VERSION_CODE_HERE

Answer 4 · 2021-09-08T07:52:49.000Z

That will work for apps that explicitly declare `CurrentVersionCode`, but not for most, where it is implicitly declared. The app index is the canonical source, but isn't really an API. Its an index of all available apps and APKs. Basically, do * `wget https://f-droid.org/repo/index-v1.jar` * verify JAR signature * extract `index-v1.json` You can see that in action here: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/-/blob/2.0.1/fdroidserver/index.py#L696 For apkeep, the thing to do is to cache the index file locally, then check whether to redownload it using etags.

Answer 5 · 2021-09-22T21:33:31.000Z

I've added support for F-Droid in c30cda5. If all goes well and everything cross-compiles gracefully, I'll close this issue.

Answer 6 · 2021-09-23T00:20:20.000Z

Confirmed cross-compiling works, closing