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platisd / AndroidCar

Arduino library to control an Android Autonomous Vehicle by Team Pegasus
GNU General Public License v3.0
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add apk file #2

Open eagleanurag opened 5 years ago

eagleanurag commented 5 years ago

please add apk file so that people who don't know a lot about android and development

they could easily install the app in their smartphone Please help them by adding .apk in the repo

platisd commented 5 years ago

To begin with, this is the low-level board repository of that project, so it doesn't make sense to add the apk here in any case. :smile:

But other than I can respond as to why I am personally against doing that. First of all, you shouldn't install APKs that you find online. Sometimes it's OK I guess if it's from a trusted source like apkmirror.com, but I definitely shouldn't be considered one. Secondly, let's assume the apk is available. I would like you to answer the following question: What would be the benefit of you installing it on your phone?

It will not do much, or anything at all, without the car and even if you have a car made like the one we had it will most likely still not work the same way. The value of the specific application is in its source code, which with smaller or larger modifications can be made to suit your project-specific needs and not in the installable APK.

I can provide help perhaps on how to compile the app but trust me, compiling the app will be the least of your problems. :+1: