exclude com.google.android.gms from apk binaries

[adbenitez]

recently DeltaLab got added to IzzyOnDroid repo and after being scanned with some apk analyzer got marked with anti-features because GMS blobs are bundled in the apk due to maplibre including it, this is also happening in official Delta Chat.

I excluded gms and all seems to work fine because in practice we don't use google services, and reading maplibre's repo, the class using the gms package is com.mapbox.mapboxsdk.location.engine.GoogleLocationEngineImpl and in:
https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native/blob/ea234edf67bb3aec75f077e15c1c30c99756b926/platform/android/MapboxGLAndroidSDK/src/main/java/com/mapbox/mapboxsdk/location/LocationComponent.java#L83
it says that for GoogleLocationEngineImpl to be used:

simply add the Google Play Location Services dependency in your build script.

since we don't add it, it is unused, but yet the com.google.android.gms was bundled in the apk

Without this Delta Chat might get flagged on f-droid (other apps are getting similar issues, check https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/10991 )

as a plus this should make the apk size a bit smaller :)

[github-actions]

To test the changes in this pull request, install this apk:
📦 app-preview.apk

[licaon-kter]

Ref: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/commit/a55e368d341bc5407cf77d8c8c1e4c63e7183a7f

[licaon-kter]

Confirmed this cleans up 👍

[licaon-kter]

@adbenitez right, 626 needs to be disabled too, 621 does not have these classes in smali/, this happens when one mixes 2 tasks at once :(

ref: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/commit/55751671beaac41b9543a9ad9b03082874f7c775

[r10s]

@licaon-kter i yesterday tagged 1.30.2 (631), that includes this pr and should hopefully work out :)

f-droid picked the tag already up, https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/metadata/com.b44t.messenger.yml , so it is probably in the build queue again - can you say how long f-droid builds take these days until available in the f-droid app?

[licaon-kter]

@r10s current cycle has ended and awaits publishing, so this will be in the next one: https://monitor.f-droid.org/builds/running

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/wiki/-/wikis/FAQ#how-long-does-it-take-for-my-app-to-show-up-on-website-and-client 🙂

[r10s]

@licaon-kter thanks a lot for these information in special and for your work on f-droid in general <3