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Re:Signal for Android: RedPhone and TextSecure in one app by xenophonf on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @08:43AM (#10499448) 

  compile the APK and see if it matches
Are deterministic builds possible with the Android toolchain?
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Re:Signal for Android: RedPhone and TextSecure in one app by finnn on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @12:02PM (#10500822)
F-Droid is working on this:

https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Deterministic,_Reproducible_Bu...

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Re:Signal for Android: RedPhone and TextSecure in one app by archivator on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @11:15AM (#10500502)
Last I looked, no, but the immediate cause of nondeterminism I saw was the zip entry timestamps in the apk. I didn't bother looking further down the chain.
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