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anwilli5 / coin-collection-android-US

Repo for the Coin Collection Android app
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Availability outside Play Store? #78

Closed IzzySoft closed 2 years ago

IzzySoft commented 2 years ago

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Are there plans to make the app available outside the walled garden of Google Play – for those having no access there (e.g. no Google account, no Play Services on their devices – be it for privacy reasons or because the device vendor didn't ship it)? You could e.g. attach the APK file to your tags/releases, as it's wide-spread use.

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sw23 commented 2 years ago

I personally hadn't really thought about it, but seems like a reasonable idea. We've had people ask for older versions of the app before, so might be a useful way to provide those as well.

IzzySoft commented 2 years ago

Where people of the mentioned group would look first is your releases/ – you currently haven't tagged any, so you could preferably consider that as well. The most common pattern for tag names is prefixing the versionName with a v, e.g. v3.3.1 for your current versionName: "3.3.1" (though something like c27 if you want to co by versionCode would work fine as well).

If you'd let me know once it's available, I probably could include it with my repo, which is quite popular with … you guess it :rofl: Updates would then be pulled automatically within 24h of your making them available, and users get notified via their favourite F-Droid client. If you wish you could then even go one step further and apply for inclusion with the F-Droid.org repository.

sw23 commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the detailed info! I'll let you know when this gets set up

sw23 commented 2 years ago

@IzzySoft I've created a release matching the current app version here: https://github.com/anwilli5/coin-collection-android-US/releases/tag/v3.3.1

I've been researching and will likely set up a Github Action to generate the releases, but will make them manually until I get that set up. Note that there are two APKs which are the same other than the package name: 'android' which goes to Google Play store and 'amazon' which goes to the Amazon Appstore. You'd probably want the 'android' one

IzzySoft commented 2 years ago

Thanks a lot! I've just added your app to my repo: it will become available here at around 19:00 UTC today. So if you wish, you can add a third badge to your row on the Readme then :smiley:

And yes, I guess the 'android' one will be the right one, so I've picked that. Updates are fetched automatically within 24h of your tagging them (and attaching the APKs of course) – ah, I've already mentioned that :rofl: