Submit to F-Droid

[timusus]

I don't know what's involved here. I'd like to do this, but it would be great if I could get some help, as I have even more on my plate than usual having just released Shuttle as an open source app.

https://f-droid.org/contribute/

[faho]

See https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Inclusion_Policy.

This would require adding a build flavor without Crashlytics, firebase and play services.

[IzzySoft]

Meanwhile, attaching the .apk to releases/ (and dropping me a note) could bring it into my repository (F-Droid compatible) immediately, see Creating Releases for details on how to achieve that (pretty easy, no much time spent on it).

[Thaodan]

Also infos why for example services like play services are needed would be nice.

[IzzySoft]

@Thaodan seeing vending.CHECK_LICENSE being requested, one of the reasons in the free version might be upgrading to Shuttle+ via IAP – which should not hurt being removed from the FOSS version. I'd still be interested for what a music player might need GCM, though 😉

[timusus]

Shuttle uses Play Services for Firebase integration (analytics). GCM != Play Services.

I'm working towards automating apk deployment, firstly to the releases section of Github. Once that's done, I'll create an F-droid branch of the project which removes Crashlytics/Firebase.

[IzzySoft]

Good plan, @timusus ! Still curious: What does the app use GCM for?

[timusus]

@IzzySoft Shuttle doesn't use GCM.

[IzzySoft]

@timusus strange. Then I wonder what went wrong with the analysis on Appbrain, which states so.

[IzzySoft]

Thanks, @timusus – it's available in my repo now 😺

[timusus]

@IzzySoft it's not F-droid ready yet. Still need to create a version without Play-Services/Crash lyrics.

As for AppBrain, I'm not sure why it's getting a false-positive for GCM.. Maybe something to do with Firebase..

[IzzySoft]

Understood, @timusus – still, if you include my repo with your F-Droid client, it now is available by that, including updates whenever you create a new tag and attach an .apk to it. Just follow the link to see for yourself 😺 But yes, for the official repo it would need that special version.

As someone who only get apps from F-droid it would be lovely if you could make it compatible with the official branch 👍

Just joining my voice here, thank you for open sourcing it !

[adityasaky]

Hey, has there been an update on this?