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vijai1996 / screenrecorder

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Provide pure-floss build flavor #13

Closed ghost closed 7 years ago

ghost commented 7 years ago

Recent versions started to introduce firebase, which is non-free software. Could you provide a gradle flavor which does not require this?

vijai1996 commented 7 years ago

That is non intrusive and for receiving crash reports and active installs (analytics). The whole code in opensourced and you can fork the project anytime and build it on your own without firebase. I'd like to reassure that the project will remain opensource and app wont be interested in any of user's data.

ghost commented 7 years ago

For now sed -i -e '/google-services/d' -e '/firebase/d' build.gradle app/build.gradle should do it, since I cannot see any firebase specific code. If you intend to add such depending code, I'd really like to see it in a special flavor. Thanks for now.

vijai1996 commented 7 years ago

It's been on local system for now and is in testing. I do really need to have a number of installs on the app (inclusive of play store and other places) and to get crash reports easily. The reason why firebase is used. If there is any major drawback with that, I'd consider other choices

ghost commented 7 years ago

I'd say countly (https://github.com/Countly/countly-sdk-android) and acra (https://github.com/ACRA) are food options for floss user tracking, but you mileage may vary. As for "other places": f-droid.org cannot build non-free stuff like firebase.

vijai1996 commented 7 years ago

Thats nice! Never knew those. Might consider them