The app size issue in fdroid is still not solved, but the issue was closed .

[cyber-psych]

so making another one incase it was a mistake/misunderstanding . The app is now almost 4 times bigger than actually needed which might turn of a lot of users and have issues with people running older/weaker devices and custom roms . This will make the app more accessible .

[Cwpute]

The issue you're refering to is #470. You have a partial answer there: the size of the app balooned because of new features, but since the last Nightly release (not official, for dev and testing purposes) you are able to download a significantly smaller apk specific to the architecture of your device in the Releases tab here on Github.

Reading your comment, and testing this myself, i asume you're referring to the situation on Fdroid specifically ? The app size is still relatively big (120Mb) because it only shows us the universal apk, which hasn't seen its size reduced, contrary to architecture-specific apks.

Is Fdroid able to present users with an architecture-specific apk so that we benefit from the recently reduced apk size automatically ? Or will we be required to pick our own specific architecture from the Releases tab here if we want the reduced size apks ?

[cyber-psych]

fdroid automatically updates, installs the right architecture when pressing install and suggest the apk suitable for the user if that's what you mean . You can check fennec and VLC which are two apps i use that does this . Also I'm not talking abt the apk size you menationed first, every other fully featured gallery is large in size, just talking abt the size of fdroid apks which are abysmally big due to having multiple architecture combined .

[Cwpute]

So as i understand, the reason we have big apk on Fdroid is because only the universal apk was sent to them by the maintainers of Gallery, right ?

[IacobIonut01]

So as i understand, the reason we have big apk on Fdroid is because only the universal apk was sent to them by the maintainers of Gallery, right ?

There's no apk sent, they compile themselves

[cyber-psych]

There's no apk sent, they compile themselves

Not a dev, but there is an option for the developers to supply split architecture apps . There are multiple apps on fdroid with split architectures, i would know cause i use them, i do think there is some work to be done in the start by the dev and after that fdroid updates automatically like they do now without much input by the dev .

[IacobIonut01]

There's no apk sent, they compile themselves

Not a dev, but there is an option for the developers to supply split architecture apps . There are multiple apps on fdroid with split architectures, i would know cause i use them, i do think there is some work to be done in the start by the dev and after that fdroid updates automatically like they do now without much input by the dev .

There's an open issue regarding adding support for split apks in fdroid by adding an increment to the end of the versioncode

[cyber-psych]

oh, can you link me that issue ? i opened this cause i couldn't find one but if there aldready is one i prolly should close this yea ?

[Cwpute]

@cyber-psych they are referring to an issue on Fdroid's repository about split apks, not in Gallery's repository !

This is most likel the issue we're talking about: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/-/issues/82 If you know anybody who could help with this, please come forth and introduce them to this issue.

[cyber-psych]

i personally don't know anyone, i am not a dev either if i were i would've loved to help out . Besides the dev of this app seems like he knows his shit so i doubt the problem is that he don't know how but just don't have the time .

[cyber-psych]

@IacobIonut01 what are your thoughts ? do you intend to support split apks on fdroid in near future ?