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shorthouse / CoinWatch

CoinWatch is an Android cryptocurrency app providing real-time coin prices, price histories, and market data, built using the latest Android architecture components
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APKs at releases not signed #1

Closed IzzySoft closed 11 months ago

IzzySoft commented 11 months ago

Could you please provide signed APKs at your releases? At least the one for the currently latest release is not signed, and thus cannot be installed (not everyone is able to self-sign – and not everyone can use PlayStore). Thanks in advance!

shorthouse commented 11 months ago

Hi IzzySoft,

Thanks for raising this issue. I have amended release 1.1.2 (latest) to include a signed release APK instead, and this should now work on your device.

Please do let me know if you have any other issues or improvements for CoinWatch!

IzzySoft commented 11 months ago

Thanks! Not exactly my device, but… image

Becoming visible here with the next sync around 6 pm UTC. If you want you can then pick a badge to accompany the lonely PlayStore one and point it there :wink: Updates are usually pulled automatically within 24h of your making the APK available at a new release – provided the signature matches. This makes your app available to those using an F-Droid client (e.g. as they don't trust or cannot access PlayStore, as indicated initially). Hope you like it that way!

(PS: No worries about the AntiFeature – all coin-watching APIs seem to have it. There's simply no "libre" API available. Making it visible is for transparency – same as the library listing you will find there when scrolling down, plus the results from the VT scan)

shorthouse commented 11 months ago

Happy for this to go ahead, as it's always good to have multiple options to download open-source Android apps 😊

IzzySoft commented 11 months ago

That's the idea, yes :smiley: And using an F-Droid client makes it easier for those without PlayStore to get updates in a timely member (without having to check Github releases manually) plus having an additional "security and transparency" layer (due to the checks performed in my repo – F-Droid has even more of them as they build from source and thus scan that as well). A clear win I'd say :star_struck: