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jamiesanson / Mammut

An Android Client for Mastodon
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Alternative to Playstore #4

Closed IzzySoft closed 5 years ago

IzzySoft commented 5 years ago

Would you consider using an alternative download source for those running their devices free of Google? Easiest way would be attaching the APK to the releases/ here on Github – but bringing it to F-Droid would be excellent.

jamiesanson commented 5 years ago

Great idea! I'm a little way off properly distributing this app, I've got a lot of work to do to get it up to a level where I want to ship it properly, so for now I'll stick with Google Play Beta. I will be considering alternate app stores when moving this app out of beta, but for now it's easiest to keep it where it is.

Cheers

IzzySoft commented 5 years ago

Thanks for considering! But currently, that means excluding users whose devices run without Google. May I suggest to at least provide the APK via the releases/ – and keeping this issue open as reminder for the rest?

jamiesanson commented 5 years ago

To follow up on this, I've begun adding the App bundles to the releases section here on Github. Installing these is a bit more of a pain compared to regular APKs, but if you so wish go ahead and try out bundletool

IzzySoft commented 5 years ago

Couldn't you just attach the APK files, signed with your key? That would make it much easier, and I could offer to serve them via my F-Droid compatible repo. And before you ask: No, I don't have the Android SDK installed anywhere, I'm not an Android dev 😉

jamiesanson commented 5 years ago

Hey,

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I've been considering making the app paid on the Play Store to give me motivation to spend more time working on it. I'll be moving this repository to my Github org, K-OSS. I plan on keeping the code open source, changing the license to GPL 3.0, but due to the fact that I plan on eventually integrating the app with paid services (i.e for support of push notifications) I will not be bundling APK/AAB files with the repository. Should one wish to install Mammut for free that will still be doable by building from source and supplying their own keys for these paid services.

Sorry for the inconvenience, Jamie

IzzySoft commented 5 years ago

That's indeed not "good news" for some. Still, let me point out that several other projects have done so – and still offer their apps for free in F-Droid. Examples are OsmAnd and DAVDroid. Just saying (hope dies last). So would you oppose F-Droid building the APK from your sources, and publish it in its repo?