What about proposing this amazing app to F-droid ?

[hidroh]

What about proposing this amazing app to F-droid ?

[igoralmeida]

You don't build (and, therefore, you don't sign), f-droid does this automatically. Until reproducible builds are ready, that's the only way apps are available there. Hence the notice in the FAQ:

But do note: if an app is also distributed in an APK signed by the developer, like in the Google Play Store, then the F-Droid APK will have a different signature.

With respect to your second point, while it is possible to have the tracking anti-feature mark, i.e. your app's tracking is not disabled by default, I would recommend you not to do so. I, for one, wouldn't install it that way, and would instead try to patch it out, giving up if this breaks anything.
Gradle flavors are quite helpful and if you are willing to do the legwork (IIUC, you'd have to change some gradle files and possibly add some conditionals in the affected java files), it would be a big help since you're the most qualified person to change the codebase.

[hidroh]

Hi thanks for your support. I did take a look at f-droid before, though I'm not quite sure what would be the implications of listing my app there (e.g. deployment efforts, analytics allowed? etc). If you are familiar maybe you can give me some pointers?

[ademcan]

Thank you for your quick reply.
I just had a look at the available documentation and everything in Materialistic looks OK:
https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Inclusion_Policy
https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Inclusion_How-To
For the submission one should create a new topic for the app in the following forum:
https://f-droid.org/forums/forum/submission-queue
Of course it is not mandatory and/or urgent, but I think that the F-droid store is missing such nice and useful applications.

[hidroh]

Sorry I have decided not to publish to a 2nd store. Anyone with access to Play Store can download from there, otherwise they can build from source.

[jfreax]

To be honest, it's a shame that you are not interested in F-Droid.
F-Droid is (in my opinion) a very important and valuable project for the open source android ecosystem. Some people prefer to not use the Google Store for different reasons.

In the end, it is just a simple repository like an apt repo for Debian. You don't have to create extra builds or something like this. It really shouldn't be to much hassle to add it into the f-droid store.

If you have questions or need help, just ask. You've created a very good open source program, - let the world see it!

[hidroh]

By all means I don't want Play Store to be the only place the app is available. That's why I made it available to download from Github releases as well.

Regarding F-Droid, last time I checked I need to go thru submission queue, have my app signed by F-Droid, and need to tag for it to auto recognize my update (not all my tags result in a new app version though). I also need to expose some private API keys to F-Droid build process.

All these seem to be too much a hassle for me, compared to Github releases, which though manual, it's much easier for me to just drop an APK when I have new update. The app downloaded from Github and Play Store are compatible and users can switch to either one anytime.

[igoralmeida]

Some clarifications:
Submission queue: someone else can submit it for you
Tag: just respect the android versionCode, which you probably already do, and fdroid will pick it up
Private API keys: as long as core functionality is not impaired, that can be patched out pre-build (you could help clarifying the dependencies, but you don't also have to answer questions if you don't want to)

That said, if you still think you'd have too much work to do, would you be opposed to this app appearing as-is (private functionality removed, if possible) on f-droid?

Thanks

[hidroh]

Thanks for clarifications. I went thru F-Droid wiki once more. The 2 deal breakers for me are:

• Signing key: I have to use F-Droid key, which is some thing I'm not willing to personally. I may have another app in the future that I wish to share same signing key (e.g. for shared accounts). This will not be possible with F-Droid.
• No tracking allowed: I need basic tracking from GA & Fabric to monitor app usage and crashes. Without them I won't be able to cater for users installed from F-Droid.

Of course I can make a different flavor of the app that can be distributed on F-Droid, but I can't give it the same attention for the above reason.

[igoralmeida]

By the way, thanks for giving this a second look :)

[hidroh]

Let's just keep this discussion open for now, I'll revisit soon.

[garymoon]

Reading this thread it doesn't seem anyone's aware that Materialistic is already in F-Droid. It's been there since the first of Oct 2016, and is where I found it. It's an excellent app, thank you very much!

https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/io.github.hidroh.materialistic

[hidroh]

Well look like someone took the liberty of porting the app to F-Droid. I have no problem with that, it's open source anyway, though some of the features may not work the same way as the one released here.

[igoralmeida]

I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was available on F-Droid. Though from the metadata https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/metadata/io.github.hidroh.materialistic.txt I have no reason to believe the app has been changed in any way from upstream (this repo).

[igoralmeida]

I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was available on F-Droid. Though from the metadata https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/metadata/io.github.hidroh.materialistic.txt I have no reason to believe the app has been changed in any way from upstream (this repo).

On October 22, 2016 11:22:52 PM GMT-02:00, Ha Duy Trung [email protected] wrote:

Well look like someone took the liberty of porting the app to F-Droid.
I have no problem with that, it's open source anyway, though some of
the features may not work the same way as the one released here.

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[hidroh]

Closing this since the app has already been published to F-Droid by someone.