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📱 Nextcloud Android app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nextcloud.client
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update checker in the app that checks/installs from github directly #6668

Open karolyi opened 4 years ago

karolyi commented 4 years ago

Hey,

I am looking for a stable version of the app where it's not needed to be downloaded from any app store (f-droid/google play store/aptoide/apkpure).

I have my android installed with lineageos but without the google services malware (I consider it to be a malware at this point), and the other app stores don't provide stable releases fast enough, after a release.

I noticed that you already put out release candidates on here, so why not provide an update checker in the app that goes to check github for new stable/beta releases? FairEmail does that already: if you download it from the github release, it will keep checking for new stuff on there and completely skip and ignore any app stores.

This way you would have a way more streamlined process for app distribution.

If you accept Kotlin contributions, I might have some time to look into it as I do android here and there.

tobiasKaminsky commented 4 years ago

We have this already for dev/daily version, but there it is easier as this is a complete independent release. For official release, we would need to find out how it was installed.

Honestly I do think that there is too little demand for this…