Publish on F-Droid?

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Publish on F-Droid?

IzzySoft opened this issue 6 years ago · 10 comments

As far as I can see, there are no show-stoppers for publishing your app on F-Droid (which is THE place for Android FOSS apps). Assuming you are interested, I've opened a Request For Packaging ("RFP") for your app – so if you agree, F-Droid would build your app from your sources, and include it with its index (see here).

Would you support that? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1 · 2018-10-06T21:42:31.000Z

Hi.
F-Droid looks suitable for this open-source app. Ofc you can build and share.
In addition here's the Google Play link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tht.k3pler

Answer 2 · 2018-10-06T22:05:57.000Z

Thanks a lot, @KeyLo99! Until it's build and available in the official repo, I just made it available in mine: http://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.tht.k3pler (so it can already be found with the F-Droid client if the user has my repo enabled in it).

Answer 3 · 2018-10-07T09:27:48.000Z

@KeyLo99 the scanner bot just ran and found a minor security issue with your gradlew, see here. Not relevant for the F-Droid build (which works a bit different) – but thought you might wish to know for yours.

Answer 4 · 2019-01-31T17:06:50.000Z

@KeyLo99 I just notice tags are missing. Our "builders" very much prefer them (makes it easier to package the correct commit – and to identify updates). Could you please use them?

Answer 5 · 2019-01-31T17:43:03.000Z

@IzzySoft There you go. >

Answer 6 · 2019-01-31T22:10:35.000Z

Thanks a lot! Pinged our "integrators" to pick it up. And adjusted my updater to fetch the APK from the tags 😃

Answer 7 · 2019-06-24T16:04:42.000Z

Hey there! How can I update the APK on F-Droid?

Answer 8 · 2019-06-24T16:32:27.000Z

@KeyLo99 just tag a new release. Metadata say that will be noticed, fetched and built automatically (then pushed into the review queue for approval, signing and finally publication).

Taken literally: you cannot update the APK, as F-Droid builds it from source 😉

Answer 9 · 2019-06-28T16:10:25.000Z

No idea why it's not even picked up in Metadata yet. Sometimes it takes a couple of days. Should above link still not show the new version within a week, feel free to ping me again (or ask on IRC #fdroid at freenode yourself; I'm not involved nor familiar with builds, so that's what I'd do then anyway).

Answer 10 · 2019-10-03T10:59:13.000Z

Just to let you know you now made updates impossible in this commit: changing the package ID is a very bad idea. There can't and won't be any future updates in F-Droid. Users must re-install your app.

Was that intended? Then you need to apply for a new listing of the new package name. If not: either revert the change of package name back to what it was, or add a specific build flavor explicitly setting applicationId "com.tht.k3pler" so we can point our build process to that.

Reference: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/issues/1820