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Re:Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to trac... by gowld on Monday April 29, 2024 @05:43PM (#40204469)
What's the status of trustworthy reproducible build systems for deploying open source code to apps on Android?
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Re:Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to trac... by kevincox on Monday April 29, 2024 @07:22PM (#40205363)
https://f-droid.org/docs/Reproducible_Builds/

I think Signal also does this for their Android app. I'm not sure of much else in this space.

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Re:Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to trac... by 1oooqooq on Monday April 29, 2024 @06:20PM (#40204812)
well, zero. just like apple. since there's no convenient way for the user the validate anything they are installing other than "the app store said so"
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Re:Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to trac... by sodality2 on Monday April 29, 2024 @11:53PM (#40207067)
This is a response to a question of Google Play’s reproducibility which is moot because of the distribution mechanism. *Android* in general does have reproducibility especially from third party repos like F-droid.
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Re:Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to trac... by 1oooqooq on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @06:27AM (#40209328)
correct.

sadly fdroid usage is close to zero. and even there verification requires adb hacks and very expert users, even for basic hash checking.

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