F-Droid can't build - Firebase is not FOSS

[licaon-kter]

Ref: https://f-droid.org/wiki/index.php?title=org.ddosolitary.okcagent/lastbuild_5&oldid=274827

Ref: 5dd1bfa

Ref: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/7266

[DDoSolitary]

Well, I didn't even know that Firebase is not fully FOSS because there's firebase/firebase-android-sdk on GitHub. I just checked it again and found out that it only contains some part of the SDK.

Could you please some suggestions on alternatives to Firebase? I'm not going to use paid products or self-hosted solutions because I'm unable to afford that. Currently I'm considering Microsoft App Center, which seems to have a fully open source SDK: https://github.com/microsoft/appcenter-sdk-android

[licaon-kter]

MS App Center might be, but careful not to include the Push part.

Bugsnag or ACRA or Sentry, I guess?

[DDoSolitary]

Thanks a lot for your suggestion. I just migrated to Bugsnag and removed all usage of Firebase.

[licaon-kter]

Don't forget to add a setting to toggle this, maybe make it off by default (aka opt-in) else we'll need to add AntiFeature: Tracking

Also, add same sort of Privacy Policy to explain what data is transmitted, to whom, etc etc

[DDoSolitary]

The new release (v0.2.3) has switched to Bugsnag and allows users to enable/disable automatic error reporting. It will also ask if error reporting should be enabled (with description about the data collected) on first launch.