feat: Publish to f-droid

[rollingmoai]

Type

Other

Branch

flutter

Issue

It would be great if Revanced Manager is on f-droid.

Feature

Add Revanced Manager is on f-droid.

Motivation

F-droid is a convenient way to install FOSS apps to those without the Google Playstore, therefore I see a need for this.

Additional context

F-droid Website

[Aunali321]

Manager is still ln alpha and should not be available on any store fronts.

[rollingmoai]

Even though, this should not be closed until it is completed.

[Aunali321]

It will take some time to make the manager stable.

[shuvashish76]

RFP: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/-/issues/2206

[IzzySoft]

@Aunali321 may I ask what the current state is? I see a stable release was tagged in March, so maybe "now is the time"?

[Aunali321]

@Aunali321 may I ask what the current state is? I see a stable release was tagged in March, so maybe "now is the time"?

There is no stable release and there no plans to launch on f-droid yet.

[IzzySoft]

Ah, then I misinterpreted the latest label on v0.0.57 (which is not marked pre-release).

Thanks for reopening btw – and we'll then wait for "things to come", wishing you the best progress!

[masterflitzer]

There is no stable release

v0.0.57 wasn't tagged as pre-release
v1.0.0 got released some time ago
v1.2.0 removed the alpha disclaimer

why isn't it considered stable when it's indirectly communicated through these actions?

[Ushie]

At the time of the last comment, v0.0.57 was the latest release, which was still an Alpha

This issue has been reopened, there's nothing that's says v1.0.0 isn't a stable release, nobody here has said that, we just haven't had the time or interest exactly to release it to F-Droid

[Ushie]

@IzzySoft Hey, do you know if we meet the official F-Droid repository's requirements? if so, is it too time consuming to release there?

[IzzySoft]

There is an open RFP, and the issuebot report there looks good. It just states that Fastlane structures are missing here in your app's repo (that's the way you maintain description and graphics to represent your app in the F-Droid catalog). Mind setting those up here? Be welcome to use my Fastlane Cheat Sheet for guidance. The minimum needed is creating /fastlane/metadata/android/en-US and adding hort_description.txtplusfull_description.txt` there – though I'd strongly recommend to also include a few screenshots and an icon (see the Cheat Sheet on where they should go).

[Ushie]

I'll look into this soon! possibly after my graduation.

[IzzySoft]

Then best wishes for that process first! When will that be (so we have an approx. ETA)?

[Ushie]

You could expect it between tomorrow and before the end of June

[Aunali321]

@IzzySoft can you review #889?

[IzzySoft]

@Aunali321 LGTM. The only things F-Droid needs are inside /fastlane/metadata/android, so you could leave the other parts out – unless the project plans to use the fastlane binaries (e.g. fastlane supply). Metadata is also easily maintained "manually" (which is what most projects do in this case, i.e. to provide the metadata to F-Droid).

[Aunali321]

@Aunali321 LGTM.

Thank you!. hopefully will be merged today or tomorrow.

[NicoWeio]

Since this has been stale for a few months: From what I gather, all that's missing is the YAML metadata? Could you use help with that, or is there something else missing?

[Ushie]

Yeah, it's only the YAML missing

I'd spent a while on it a few months back, but I remember coming into issues (though don't remember what they were) and I haven't gotten back to it

[Ushie]

I'm working on it now

[Ushie]

I've looked into this for a while, I tried to work with what we have right now but it just overcomplicated the build script, as we use GitHub Packages and that's not a trusted repo in F-Droid, so I've decided the best path going forward would be publishing our packages on maven

Once our repositories are setup to publish to a trusted maven repository, this can be continued as it would be a simple 3 command build script then

[Ushie]

This is no longer planned due to complications with settling with a trusted maven repository, ReVanced has switched back to GH Packages.