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[REQUEST] Setup an F-Droid App Repository #95

Open Neurognostic opened 4 years ago

Neurognostic commented 4 years ago

Summary

Many users run Android without Google Play Services and thus no Google Play Store. Providing an F-Droid-like repository will support those users and enable them to have a reliable and up to date source for the Meganz apks.

40 and #9 stalled out due to the argument that the meganz license is not compatible with F-Droid. While this is true, F-Droid does not prevent third party application distributors from setting up their own F-Droid-compatible repository server (in fact, they promote it).

Short of building the code in this repository manually there is no secure source for MEGA.nz apks. The alternative is getting the apk from some untrustworthy third party that mirrors Google Play's catalogue.

Request

Setup a small repository for distributing the MEGA.nz android app and related tools. Then users can

F-Droid provides all the required tools: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/repomaker https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Setup_an_F-Droid_App_Repo/ https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Installing_the_Server_and_Repo_Tools/

There are also many, many examples of third party repositories. https://forum.f-droid.org/t/known-repositories/721

Benefits

  1. Privacy conscious Android users can have a reliable and trustworthy source for Mega.nz APKs.
  2. Easy to stay up to date on the latest builds.
  3. Automated build and distribution on an established opensource platform.
  4. Apks can be signed and automatically verified by F-Droid compatible "stores".
  5. Mega.nz breaks their dependence on Google
  6. No dependence on Google
  7. No dependence on Google
ghost commented 3 years ago

Are the devs considering to setup an F-droid repo? Been a while since this issue was opened.

javiergm1983 commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the request/suggestion. At the moment we are not considering this option, but we will study the possibility of doing so in the future.

bingoxo commented 3 years ago

any update ?

Flam3z commented 2 years ago

Was looking through possible f-droid suggestions and this was the 2nd one out of the only 2 that I found, has a repo been reconsidered yet? especially for those who want to rid google out of their lives but still want to enjoy mega.