Appreciating F-Droid as an app developer

Re:Appreciating F-Droid as an app developer by vanous on Thursday December 08, 2022 @02:40PM (#33912223)

>For example it takes them too long to update apps, with no appreciation to the update (meaning if there was a critical CVE ), and other.

Fully agree, have some experiences.

Friendly advice: treat Fdroid like any other development dependency and try to be in control rather than being dependent: run your own f-droid repo which people can add to their Fdroid app as a source.

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Re:Appreciating F-Droid as an app developer by worldsavior on Thursday December 08, 2022 @02:52PM (#33912387)

Agreed. Using GitHub is already a better option since it's eliminating another party (Fdroid).

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Re:Appreciating F-Droid as an app developer by ajvs on Thursday December 08, 2022 @06:48PM (#33915477)

Self-hosting a F-Droid repo means users can easily get automatic updates, which is important for security.

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Re:Appreciating F-Droid as an app developer by worldsavior on Friday December 09, 2022 @07:20AM (#33920455)

But it requires self hosting.

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Re:Appreciating F-Droid as an app developer by SpaghettiCthulu on Monday December 12, 2022 @10:43AM (#33955869)

Would it be possible to host an fdroid repo on GitHub pages?

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Re:Appreciating F-Droid as an app developer by worldsavior on Monday December 12, 2022 @04:16PM (#33960402)

I don't see any reason why not. After all, GitHub pages is a repo, which you can upload an APK to.

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