Release on F-Droid ?

[physkets]

Are there any plans to release the app on F-Droid?

[SumeetMoray]

Sure why not ... ! It does seem like a nice option ... thanks for suggesting !

[physkets]

https://f-droid.org/en/docs/FAQ_-_App_Developers/

[Gymcap]

Bump

[nicolasmaia]

@rudloff ^

[Rudloff]

@picsi Feel free to open an RFP for this app.

[SumeetMoray]

Thank you ... it may take me a while ... but i will submit the RFP for this app !

[IzzySoft]

A quick look at your build.gradle shows a few show-stoppers: proprietary elements like Firebase or GMS are not acceptable at F-Droid. So you'd either need to drop those altogether – or establish a build flavor that comes without them.

[turion]

Any updates? I'd use this and report bugs if there were an F-Droid release.

[SumeetMoray]

A quick look at your build.gradle shows a few show-stoppers: proprietary elements like Firebase or GMS are not acceptable at F-Droid. So you'd either need to drop those altogether – or establish a build flavor that comes without them.

I appreciate your sentiments and we are with you on that ... it would be really wonderful if we could use only open source libraries ... we are already using open-street maps as an alternative to proprietary google maps.

but firebase is currently the most battery efficient alternative to push notifications ... would you like to suggest any good open-source replacement ... ?

[SumeetMoray]

Any updates? I'd use this and report bugs if there were an F-Droid release.

Thank you ... that would be great ... !

We always favour open-source over proprietary platforms so we will do our best to promote and favour f-droid over google play ...

[physkets]

A quick look at your build.gradle shows a few show-stoppers: proprietary elements like Firebase or GMS are not acceptable at F-Droid. So you'd either need to drop those altogether – or establish a build flavor that comes without them.

but firebase is currently the most battery efficient alternative to push notifications ... would you like to suggest any good open-source replacement ... ?

You could have two builds, one for the Play store that uses Firebase, and one for F-Droid, without it (or something FOSS).

[IzzySoft]

@SumeetMoray

but firebase is currently the most battery efficient alternative to push notifications ... would you like to suggest any good open-source replacement ... ?

For already existing solutions, let me quote Jeroen:

There's multiple options for getting push, there's xmpp which works for push, an MQTT system works, Server Sent Events is an Http standard for this, and websockets is also often used for this. Tutanota and mastodon seem to like SSE, while telegram and signal use websockets in their FOSS environment (but use google whenever possible)

Conversations / Kontalk just uses the xmpp protocol it uses for chat for push notifications as it's a realtime protocol anyway

[SumeetMoray]

A quick look at your build.gradle shows a few show-stoppers: proprietary elements like Firebase or GMS are not acceptable at F-Droid. So you'd either need to drop those altogether – or establish a build flavor that comes without them.

but firebase is currently the most battery efficient alternative to push notifications ... would you like to suggest any good open-source replacement ... ?

You could have two builds, one for the Play store that uses Firebase, and one for F-Droid, without it (or something FOSS).

yes that is a good option !

[SumeetMoray]

@SumeetMoray

but firebase is currently the most battery efficient alternative to push notifications ... would you like to suggest any good open-source replacement ... ?

For already existing solutions, let me quote Jeroen:

There's multiple options for getting push, there's xmpp which works for push, an MQTT system works, Server Sent Events is an Http standard for this, and websockets is also often used for this. Tutanota and mastodon seem to like SSE, while telegram and signal use websockets in their FOSS environment (but use google whenever possible) Conversations / Kontalk just uses the xmpp protocol it uses for chat for push notifications as it's a realtime protocol anyway

I have heard about MQTT and i even tried implementing it in this project ... but the library i used was not reliable ... we need some professional and cost effective MQTT based solution ...

[IzzySoft]

Unfortunately I cannot help with the implementation: I'm no Android dev… So that hint is the best I can give.

[SumeetMoray]

i am not telling you to build a solution ... i was just asking for any good existing solution in the market ... because i could not find it !