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The Almond Android App
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Request: Add Almond Android to the F-Droid store #69

Closed r0bbie closed 6 years ago

r0bbie commented 6 years ago

Please consider submitting Almond to the F-Droid open source app store.

gcampax commented 6 years ago

Unfortunately, it seems that F-Droid prohibits apps from using Google Play Services. We use multiple Google Play Services libraries (for accessing user location, map widgets, and to use Google OAuth), and we don't have the manpower to investigate alternative libraries, even if they existed.

We will gladly accept a PR optionally removing the dependency though, provided it does not reduce functionality or increase the maintenance burden.

r0bbie commented 6 years ago

Ah, that's unfortunate. Hopeful for a divergence from reliance on proprietary Google Play Services in the future then.

(Nonetheless I'll watch the Almond project with interest / give it a go on other platforms in the meantime!)

gary-host-laptop commented 4 years ago

Do you still think it would be impossible to have an F-droid version? I think that you can still have the Google Store version with all the dependencies so that keeping track of everything is easier and a different one for F-droid. If not, maybe https://github.com/IzzySoft can add you to their repository which has a less strict criteria for app inclusion, but you can also download them from F-droid or Aurora Droid. I don't know how to mention a user here, I would do it if I could.