Publish the application on F-Droid

[jonadem]

Be the first network tools application on F-Droid ! ;-)

[stealthcopter]

@IzzySoft used to publish it from his website to F-Droid automatically, not sure why it's stopped picking it up. Might want to get in touch with him?

[IzzySoft]

@stealthcopter where did I stop? Your last tagged version is 0.4.3 – which can be found in my repo.

But apart from that, what @jonadem asks for is getting it into the official repo. I see nothing speaking against that (except that for auto-updates there, you'd need to put versionName/versionCode directly into your app/build.gradle (F-Droid cannot deal with variables there).

So if you wish, I could initiate the inclusion procedure (note: I'm meanwhile one of the F-Droid maintainers).

[stealthcopter]

Ahhhhhhhh sorry I misunderstood what was happening. Thanks again for hosting your repo :)

I'll have a look at removing the variables and read up more about F-droid

[IzzySoft]

If you need any help, ring the bell. As a "quick note": I could open an RFP (Request For Packaging) for your app at F-Droid. Our bot would then scan its Github repo (this one here) and check if everything is OK. If it is (what I assume), one of our "integrators" would see if it can be build. That being successful, your app's Metadata would be merged with ours, and a few days later your app should be available in our catalogue.

No harm trying. Official repo has more prestige (and trust) than mine 😉

For deeper details, may I recommend you the appropriate article from my blog series on F-Droid? F-Droid for advanced users and developers explains things in more details. The corresponding chapter for including your app with F-Droid is this one.

[IzzySoft]

@stealthcopter any news on this? Once you've adjusted the gradle and made a new release, we could open a packaging request (RFP) at F-Droid.

[stealthcopter]

Next commit contains the build version name/code in the app/build.gradle @IzzySoft Please feel free to initiate a RFP for it :)

[IzzySoft]

Thanks! Put on my list and hopefully will file it this week (if someone else is faster, just go ahead :rofl:). Currently have to run, work calls :cry:

[IzzySoft]

OK, here you go. You might consider establishing Fastlane file structure to provide screenshots (and also be able to maintain summary and description yourself, among other things). One place to rule them all: Fastlane Supply also ships to Play Store :wink:

[stealthcopter]

@IzzySoft Thanks for this, I've added the fastlane structure and published a new release 0.4.5 let me know if there is anything else I need to do!

[IzzySoft]

Thanks @stealthcopter – I hope en-GB will do (AFAIK F-Droid always defaults to en-US if a language isn't present; maybe a symlink would do but I cannot tell). I left a note in my RFP so the packager(s) make sure to verify. As it's not yet processed, you could of course add something and retag to make sure :wink:

[stealthcopter]

@IzzySoft I've replaced it with en-US and pushed a new build out for simplicity

[IzzySoft]

Ooops… Houston, now we have a different problem: versionName doesn't match the tag name anymore…

[stealthcopter]

Whoops, one day I'll get this right! Have pushed a new build 0.4.5.2

[IzzySoft]

:laughing: Yeah, now it fits. Updated the RFP accordingly and hope it will be picked up soon. Thanks!

[ghost]

@IzzySoft is there any news on this?

[IzzySoft]

Unfortunately not. Must have been overlooked. I've just pinged our packagers, in the hope to motivate one. Be welcome to ping there yourself should noone answer and nothing happen for another week or two.

[IzzySoft]

Finally – congrats! :tada: I'll remove your app from my repo next week (once the F-Droid index has settled in the clients) to avoid confusion (signature mismatch), if you don't mind?

[stealthcopter]

@IzzySoft of course :) thanks for all your help with this!

[IzzySoft]

Gladly, @stealthcopter – and I will miss it in my repo. Was there for 2.5 years now…