F-Droid

[IzzySoft]

F-Droid maintainer here. We received a request to include your app with our catalogue. Hoping you're not opposed to that: in order to fulfill that wish, we'd need the Android project is included in the repository, otherwise we cannot build Cordova/Ionic apps. Could you help us with that? Thanks in advance!

[Sispheor]

Hi, what do you mean by Android Project? The build?

[IzzySoft]

I'm no dev, so I just forward this. IIRC it's some folder named project/android/ (or the other way around?).

[Sispheor]

The fact is that usually you don't push built stuff in git. Maybe we can push it in a non linked branch like for the build of a GitHub page, what do you think?

[IzzySoft]

A git submodue should do IMHO. I doubt a Github page would do. @Rudloff could say for sure.

[Sispheor]

I was not saying that a github page would do the job. I proposed to copy the model of using a dedicated branch to provide the built part. This is how Github pages work, you need to push in a branch called "gh-page" which is not related to a branch of the project.
The fact is that we don't want to add built stuff in our main branch.

[Rudloff]

I think @Sispheor meant an alternative branch like what is used for GitHub pages, not an actual GitHub page.
We can certainly use a different branch than master, but it would help to have tags pointing to that so we know which commits to package.

[Sispheor]

@LaMonF

[LaMonF]

@Rudloff @IzzySoft
I just made a specific branch with the android platform (is it what you expect ?). You can find the /android repo following this link :
https://github.com/kalliope-project/kalliope-app/tree/F-Droid/kalliope/platforms/android

I also created a tag as you required : https://github.com/kalliope-project/kalliope-app/releases/tag/F-Droid-0.1

[Rudloff]

That is exactly what we need, thanks!

[Rudloff]

I think I spoke too soon.
The app builds correctly but crashes with this error:

02-03 17:19:43.818  8042  8077 E AndroidProtocolHandler: Unable to open asset URL: file:///android_asset/www/index.html

I think the kalliope/platforms/android/app/src/main/assets/www/ folder is missing.

[LaMonF]

@Rudloff Ok www/ was still in the gitignore ....
I updated the branch and the tag. It should be fine now :)

[Rudloff]

Yes, it works correctly now. Thank you!

[Rudloff]

I noticed two problems with the cordova-plugin-geofence plugin you are using:

• It contains a prebuilt gson library and we require everything to be built from source. (But that it not a huge issue, it is pretty easy for us to rebuild this library.)
• It requires Play Services and we don't allow non-free libraries.

Could your app work without this plugin?

[LaMonF]

@Rudloff Yes, this is the old but default plugin provided by ionic : https://ionicframework.com/docs/native/geofence/ . Unfortunately we are not responsible for the packaging of this library.

I am not aware of another library to provide the same features on ionic.

The app might works without this library, but it will miss some features obviously.

[Rudloff]

Unfortunately we are not responsible for the packaging of the of this library.

I asked upstream about this, but the latest release was almost 2 years ago so I would not count on it.

The app might work without this library, but it will miss some features obviously.

Do you think it would be possible to remove this plugin from the F-Droid branch?
I would understand if it is too much work for you, but without that, I am afraid we won't be able to package your app.

[Sispheor]

Not really a good idea from my point of view to remove features just to be available on this alternative store.

[NextDev65]

Is it doable to remove the plugin just for the fdroid version?

[Sispheor]

Like I said. We are not going to create dedicated version in order to be compliant with an alternative store.