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@IzzySoft IzzySoft commented Aug 6, 2025

this PR provides you with a "fastlane starter package" – to give it into your hands to define how your app is presented, and make it easy to keep descriptions & graphics in sync with your development. Some notes to sum them up in a place easy to find for you:

  • the IzzyOnDroid Fastlane Documentation can guide you with maintaining the structures here
  • take special care for limits, e.g. per-release changelogs can have max 500 chars, full_description.txt max 4,000 chars, graphics must have specific aspect ratios etc.
  • you can have "bigger graphics" here; the IoD updater takes care to resize/optimize them as needed. Currently you have no graphics; an icon would be nice (fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/images/icon.png), some screenshots (if possible) as well (fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/images/phoneScreenshots/*.(png|jpg))
  • for the full_description.txt here I've used HTML compressed into a single line, to prevent the fdroid software converting each line break to a <br>. The tags used for this are supported by F-Droid.org as well, and to my knowledge even by PlayStore.
  • whenever you add a new "type" of metadata that has not been there before (e.g. the first changelog, a featureGraphic if it wasn't yet present), please let us know so we can check and enable it.
  • Details on all this in the linked documentation.
  • Once merged, your changes will be synced whenever a new release is pulled in here – to make sure it stays up-to-date with the app itself.
  • Should you have questions, be welcome to ask 😉

A second commit adds the RB shield (yes, CorePatch was confirmed as Reproducible Build, see e.g. Reproducible Builds, special client support and more at IzzyOnDroid for some background) and the IzzyOnDroid badge (follow where it links to and find CorePatch there) to the Readme.

But now: Enjoy!

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Any chance to get this merged? As we need to move on with our current reorg at IzzyOnDroid, it would be a great help. Thanks in advance!

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IzzySoft commented Oct 8, 2025

@coderstory @yujincheng08 @aviraxp any word? For some motivation, here are the client download stats (aka install numbers) for your app at IzzyOnDroid:

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