Add fastlane file structure

[92lleo]

Add fastline file structure as detailed in fdroid doc
(task from #8)

• Create screenshots for phone and tabled (the old screenshots don't look very good)
• Create App summary and description
• tag and release

[92lleo]

Added with 7ce775b
leaving issue open until store entry is live

[PanderMusubi]

The metadata is looking good. Instead of fastlane in the top-level, also metadata in the top-level is possible but depends on you and your usage of fastlane in other strores than F-droid.

Nice would be also add a feature graphic, here is a royalty-free suggestion:

[92lleo]

Thanks for the suggestion! I just took it as is - maybe I have more motivation to do something else later:)
For the file structure: Currently I'm only releasing on fdroid (once the builds start working), so it doesn't really matter

[92lleo]

@PanderMusubi as the store entry is now live (https://f-droid.org/packages/io.kuenzler.whatsappwebtogo/), how do I get it to use "my" metadata?

[PanderMusubi]

If you move metadata one directory up and remove fastlane it should appear in next release. @IzzySoft correct?

[IzzySoft]

I wouldn't recommend that (though it should indeed work). Instead, switch to the proper Fastlane file structure: there's one directory level missing here. This repo has fastlane/metadata/en-US/* – correct would be fastlane/metadata/android/en-US.

[92lleo]

@IzzySoft next release is out (took a while..). Changelog and Images worked, but Title and Description not so much. Anything I still need to do?
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.kuenzler.whatsappwebtogo/

[IzzySoft]

Yes, we'd need to open another MR at F-Droid to remove the local description. But first you'd need to fix your fastlane short-description: max 80 chars are permitted, all behind that will get truncated. Yours has 129 chars, so almost half of that will be cut off. I'd simply make that

access WhatsApp Web on your mobile device - send audio, pictures and video

Then, after you've tagged your next release (fastlane is always tied to that), we can go and switch over. While on it, why not taking some of the current description into your full_description.txt? Combining both, that could be something like:

<i>WhatsappWeb</i> lets you access WhatsApp Web on your mobile phone or tablet. It has full support for sending audio and pictures / video. With a clean and easy interface it's fun to use - it even shows up as running on an Android phone on the phone where WhatsApp is installed!

-free and without ads-

If you have problems just send a mail or create a github issue.

This app is in no way affiliated with WhatsApp Inc. The rights for WhatsApp and WhatsApp Web belong to WhatsApp Inc. This app is a private project to enable the use of WhatsApp Web on Android Devices.

[92lleo]

Thanks for the quick feedback and tips! I updated short-description and description. I want to wait for an actual change to the app for the next tagged release to avoid having "empty" releases.
I'll ping here again once it's done

[92lleo]

Release 1.6.1/30 was picked up by fdroid: https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/io.kuenzler.whatsappwebtogo/lastbuild_30

[92lleo]

@IzzySoft ping :)
change is now picked up by buildserver and store -> https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.kuenzler.whatsappwebtogo/

[IzzySoft]

@92lleo pong, here you go 😃

[IzzySoft]

@92lleo as for pulling from fastlane, I had to clear all summaries as well. You might wish to add the corresponding short_description.txt files to your fastlane:

• pl: "Klient internetowy WhatsApp dla twojego telefonu/tabletu z obsługą multimediów"
• tr: "Medya desteği olan telefonunuz/tabletiniz için WhatsApp Web istemcisi"
• zh-CN: "适用于您的手机/平板电脑的 WhatsApp 网页客户端，具有媒体支持"

[92lleo]

@IzzySoft I'm preparing a release currently, is there anything needed to be included (besides the short descriptions)?

[PanderMusubi]

The feature graphic

[IzzySoft]

Looks like your fastlane structure contains everything that's needed (short and full desc), what's recommended (screenshots, changelogs), what's nice-to-have (featureGraphic), and even more (title). Now you'd only need to get some things in the right place: all the picture stuff needs to be below fastlane/metadata/android/<locale>/images (see my snippet for orientation). So you'd need to create the images directory where currently your descriptions reside, and then move the featureGraphic plus the phoneScreenshots directories inside that. You could also add an icon.png inside that images directory – though as you still use PNG icons (and not XML), that's not "urgently required".

[92lleo]

@IzzySoft thanks for the hint, I somehow overlooked the image dir. Fixed now.
@PanderMusubi Your suggested feature graphic was added earlier, should be in the right dir now, too. Thanks!

If the metadata looks good for you now, I'd tag a new release

[IzzySoft]

Yes, looks good now! When tagged, please send a note to the corresponding RFP (or update the MR, whichever it is). Thanks!

[92lleo]

Tagged as v1.6.2.
Do you mean the initial RFP?

[IzzySoft]

Oops, no – I see your app was already added. Then we'd need a MR to remove summary/description from our metadata, so fastlane can take over.

[92lleo]

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/7076
I just saw this was already done by you 😀 so everything should be ready? Build for 31 went trough, store didn't pick it up yet.

[IzzySoft]

Ah, I did that already… well, so much work, one doesn't remember each single item 🤣

Yes, then everything should be ready. I didn't check when that build went through – but of course it would need to be signed (manual step) and then won't appear before the next index is published.

[Domi04151309]

Fastlane file structure is present and working. I think this can get closed?

[92lleo]

Correct. Thank you all for your help! Closing.