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friimaind / pi-hole-droid

Pi-hole Droid is an unofficial app that connects to your Pi-hole to show charts and statistics.
Apache License 2.0
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Publish on Github/F-Droid? #13

Closed IzzySoft closed 7 years ago

IzzySoft commented 7 years ago

As the project is open source: would you consider publishing the .apk here at Github (preferably with the corresponding releases/), so folks without Playstore can grab it? I'd then offer to pick and regularly update it with my F-Droid compatible repository, so it would be easily available even while not (yet?) listed with the official repo.

friimaind commented 7 years ago

Sure, it could be good for users without Google Play Store.

Currently I'm waiting for F-Droid because they are working to understand how manage Apache Cordova applications to be compiled into F-Droid repo:

I could copy the apk inside /releases/ with relative SHA checksum, for example:

/releases/pihole-droid-101.apk /releases/pihole-droid-102.apk

Inside the folder there will be a single file SHA256SUMS like:

thehashofthefile pihole-droid-101.apk thehashofthefile2 pihole-droid-102.apk

do you have some advice? :)

IzzySoft commented 7 years ago

I was rather thinking you could simply attach them to the corresponding release, see Creating Releases in the GitHub Help. If you'd do that, I have the possibility to automatically pick up updates (check runs about once every 24h).

No harm to have it in both repos in the end (while if you prefer, I would remove it from mine once it's available in the official repo): the variant in my repo would be "cross-updateable" with the Playstore version (as it uses your signature), while F-Droid uses its own signature. To my experience, it can take quite a while until a new project is picked up for the official repo :)

friimaind commented 7 years ago

Oh great, I didn't notice that I can attach binary files to releases, thank you for the tip.

I will attach the apk at every new release, please have a look at the latest 1.02 to see the apk https://github.com/friimaind/pi-hole-droid/releases

I see that I can automatize the process, I will look further into.

Honestly for me is not a problem to have the app in both repositories. Pease let me know if I can close the issue! ;)

IzzySoft commented 7 years ago

Thanks a lot! Find it here now (feel free to link it from the README.md). As it's solved, I'll close the issue now. Feel free to ping me (issue still monitored) in case of any further questions – and thumbs up!

Oh, btw: Also included your app here :smile_cat: