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JekyllEx is an Android app that can manage your Jekyll blog directly from your Android device!
https://jekyllex.xyz
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F-Droid and Google Play app hosting #4

Open silicondosa opened 2 years ago

silicondosa commented 2 years ago

Hey @gouravkhunger

Congratulations on creating this neat app!

Have you considered hosting this app on F-Droid and/or Google Play? This would allow users to receive updates without having to check the github repo.

While I don't have to explain Google Play to you, F-Droid is a repo and package management system for FOSS apps such as yours. So long as your app abides by their inclusion policy (do check out their FAQ), you should be able to push your app to their repo and have anyone download it using the F-Droid app store for free.

Somone even wrote a post on how they did it.

Good luck young padawan!

gouravkhunger commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the good words @solaremperor I really appreciate your feedback for the project.

As for Google Play, I am sorry to say that my play store account got blocked by them some 4 years ago. I was a kid back then and didn't really have any guidance on how to proceed with their legal agreement and got my apps disapproved. Since they do a lifelong ban I am currently not sure of a way to get the access back.

And for F-Droid I have heard about it, and I might try publishing the app there. As of now I do have some better plans for the application- currently it uses GitHub API at its core. I am trying to port ruby binaries for native Android and try to have Jekyll and bundler run natively on Android which expand the use case of JekyllEx to a wider audience, along with those who don't use GitHub Pages 😄

But that might take some time though as I am currently engaged with @genicsblog. This might happen in the next v3.0.0 release which would be the next big update for the app. But from v2.0.0 to v3.0.0 there will be a lot of sub releases for improvements on the current scenario and I'll publish it to F-Droid within that period.

Thanks again for checking out the app!

amalbenny commented 2 months ago
As for Google Play, I am sorry to say that my play store account got blocked by them some 4 years ago.

You can try with new Google account, right?

gouravkhunger commented 2 months ago

Hey @amalbenny, I have tried that in the past. But Google blocked that new account as well. Basically they can figure out if it's me trying (from a lot of factors: location, emails, device, APK signature). Google policies state that I can't deal with any new account.

Since this gets asked to me a lot, I've added the explanation to the docs too. I'm very sorry but I've tried a lot to get this fixed but I've had little help. Google's customer support is practically non-existent.

But let's not loose hope. I plan to keep maintaining the app. If someday someone from Google helps us out, I will for sure launch it there.