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JusticeRage / ApkTrack

ApkTrack is an Android app which checks if updates for installed APKs are available.
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[Suggestion] Enhance ApkTrack's appearance and description on F-Droid #111

Closed Olf0 closed 7 years ago

Olf0 commented 7 years ago

ApkTrack's appearance and description could be easily enhanced, in order to make it more attractive:

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JusticeRage commented 7 years ago

Sadly, I don't maintain the F-Droid branch... I have no say in how the application is described, or how it looks over there.

Olf0 commented 7 years ago

Sadly, I don't maintain the F-Droid branch...

Oh, I was not aware that the F-Droidians are acting so independently of the original software authors.

I have no say in how the application is descqqribed, or how it looks over there.

O.K., I try to address this issue to them (utilising this issue description here).

mimi89999 commented 7 years ago

I have no say in how the application is descqqribed, or how it looks over there.

@JusticeRage Of course you do. Just edit https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/metadata/fr.kwiatkowski.ApkTrack.txt and open a MR in that repo (https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata).

For the icon, is it PNG? Only PNG icons are supported. Also, icons in other formats than PNG won't show in the launcher on older Android versions.

JusticeRage commented 7 years ago

@mimi89999 Thanks for letting me know! As I wasn't the one who added the project to F-Droid, I don't know much about how to interact with it. As for the icon, it is indeed a Vector image. I think Android support libraries now offer support for older devices, but that would probably require code modifications in the F-Droid client.

Bubu commented 7 years ago

@JusticeRage I just tried ApkTrack on a KitKat(19) device. It only shows the green android icon.

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Just double checked with the apk from apktrack's website.

Bubu commented 7 years ago

I adjusted the summary and description according to @Olf0's suggestions. That leaves the icon problem. :-)

Olf0 commented 7 years ago

I just tried ApkTrack on a KitKat(19) device. It only shows the green android icon.

Well, this is a different issue: "Missing desktop icon after installation", in contrast to "missing icon on F-Droid". I have also observed this happening consistently across multiple installations, upgrades and removals of ApkTrack versions from F-Droid and from @JusticeRage's server on my test phone (Jolla 1 with AOSP4.1.2 based Android runtime environment). But on my "production" phone, with the same software stack and almost the same installed applications and configuration, I do have a desktop icon installed (though I reinstalled ApkTrack only twice, there). Thus I hesitated to open another issue, as I felt this needs more testing. Feel free to do so: I will comment there, if I have any new insights into this.

But actually, (now) I would rather like to see the "gradle bug" (issue #106) fixed first, as it may bear some other side-effects (apart from "crashing when entering the settings), and start testing the "Missing desktop icon" issue more thoroughly thereafter.

Bubu commented 7 years ago

@Olf0 I think in this case it's the same issue. ApkTrack has a VectorDrawable Icon, which is only supported (natively) by SDK>=21. F-Droid also doesn't (yet) support those.

Apparently there should be a png icon generated during the build (see here) but his doesn't seem to happen here.

Olf0 commented 7 years ago

[New issue: Missing desktop icon after ApkTrack's installation]

Well, this is what it looks like on my production phone's desktop (inside the folder "App stores"): screenshot_20170913_001 So it works sometimes / worked sometime!

But on my test phone's desktop there is just a black void, where ApkTrack's desktop icon ought to be: screenshot_20170913_002

This is at API level 16 (in both cases, certainly).

It's a shame: ApkTrack's icon is really good looking and nicely depicting what ApkTrack does, but only a few can ever see it (on their device's desktop and no one on F-Droid).

JusticeRage commented 7 years ago

After doing some research, it seems that vector images are NOT acceptable as launcher icons in any circumstances. I will revert them to PNGs immediately which should solve this issue.

Olf0 commented 7 years ago

The "missing desktop icon issue" is resolved in the current ApkTrack_test.apk (see issue #110)
As far as I understand, the original issue here ("missing ApkTrack icon on F-Droid") should be automatically resolved, when a fixed version of ApkTrack is published by F-Droid. I will be closing this issue, then.

Olf0 commented 7 years ago

Thanks to @Bubu for updating the crucial parts of the description text.

Thanks to @JusticeRage, this issue is finally and completely resolved (including the "missing icon" part) by the release of ApkTrack 2.1.2 on F-Droid, today.