Release on F-Droid

[kliu128]

F-Droid is an alternative Android appstore that packages and builds free software.

Having uPort be on there, now that it's open source, would be wonderful.

[pelle]

Thanks, that's a good idea. @mirceanis lets try to get it released there.

[jopasserat]

If you guys could provide an APK along with your github releases or on your website in the meantime that'd be awesome 🔥

[mirceanis]

@jopasserat unfortunately the uPort app is incompatible with f-droid for the moment because the app has some google dependencies.
I don't think there exist alternative react-native libraries that can allow us to build a google free flavor, so don't hold your breath.
Until we tidy up release notes to include APKs you can grab them directly from our CI server.

[jopasserat]

thanks for the CI link @mirceanis !!

shame for the google libs dependency :( is that why you've started the native Android implementation (https://github.com/uport-project/uport-android)?

[mirceanis]

Yes, that's part of the reason :)
Native has the potential of being more nimble and stable. But many devtools were missing on the native front and so the focus has been on sdk development lately.

[jopasserat]

I see :)
Thanks for the explanation, don't hesitate to ping me if you want early testers of a google-free build ;)