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JusticeRage / ApkTrack

ApkTrack is an Android app which checks if updates for installed APKs are available.
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Add Signal website source for APKs without Google Play Services. #116

Closed keithzg closed 6 years ago

keithzg commented 6 years ago

Adds the APK from https://signal.org/android/apk/ as a source, autoselecting it if the app manifest includes org.thoughtcrime.securesms.service.UpdateApkRefreshListener (which the Google Play Services version doesn't register as a receiver because they rely on the Play Store for update notifications and such).

(I actually use the Play Store myself mostly, but a paranoid friend asked me earlier today how best to keep track of updates for the apps they'd sideloaded onto their phone and I went, ooh, there's that nifty ApkTrack app that'd probably work for ya! And thus started my journey down the rabbit hole that has ended for now in this pull request ;))

JusticeRage commented 6 years ago

Hi! Thanks for the pull request! Have you tested that this source is indeed selected by default for Signal? I use Copperhead's rebranded version of the application, so I cannot verify this myself.

keithzg commented 6 years ago

Yup! I tested by installing an old Apk of Signal that I had downloaded a long time ago from their website, and it properly selected the source automatically, and downloading and installing the latest version worked. Then I uninstalled it and instead installed it from the Play Store, and as expected and intended in that case it did not select the website source automatically.

JusticeRage commented 6 years ago

Thanks a lot then! It will be included in the next release.