F-Droid support?

[jluttine]

I would love to see Omni Notes on F-Droid. Would it be possible to make the required changes to Omni Notes?

Some references on the topic:
#20 (comment)
https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/omni-notes/
https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/it.feio.android.omninotes

[federicoiosue]

It's not possible at the moment due toa couple of dependencies I use at compile time that are not open source (analytics and play services)

[Mosrite]

Are there plans to change this in the long run? What are Play Services used for?

[federicoiosue]

@Mosrite actually I'm not planning to make any changes on this side.

Due to the fact that ON has begun a quite complex application all my attempts to avoid a deep dependecy with Google's third party libraries are now slowing the development.

Play services are now used just for some internal checks but moving in their direction for what concerns geolocation and user authentication could be really make my life easier.

[federicoiosue]

@Mosrite, @jluttine the newcoming 5.1 Beta will be released as FOSS.

I'd like to move closed source dependencies to external apps to be plugged-in just under special cicrumstances.

[Mosrite]

That's awesome, thanks! Maybe we'll see ON on F-Droid after all?

[federicoiosue]

This will actually require some time due to the fact that I'll have to develop all the needed code and make it stable before I can move it to the master branch (that F-Droid's guys will use to compile the app and distribute on their portal/mobile app)

[jluttine]

Really great news! :) Thanks a lot!

[AnderRasoVazquez]

Thanks for considering F-droid! =D

[federicoiosue]

A new request to be distrituited through F-Droid has been posted (https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/omni-notes/#post-16907).
Let's wait for answer.

[r0bbie]

Any update on this? Just to add myself to the list, I'd love to see Omni-Notes on F-Droid!

[federicoiosue]

No way, at least for now: https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/omni-notes/

[github-user-1]

Just wanted to throw in that I as well would really like to see ON on F-Droid. Keep on the good work and I keep my fingers crossed it will be possible with F-Droid at some point in time!

[r0bbie]

@federicoiosue thanks for all your work so far towards getting Omni-Notes onto F-Droid! Real shame there's currently still a blocking issue.

Is the only blocker now the use of jitpack? I see jitpack referenced in some pull requests (f-droid/fdroiddata@367aa58) so perhaps F-Droid's previous issues with jitpack are now resolved?

[federicoiosue]

JitPack is a great tool directly connected to ON's source code on GitHub.
They simply perform a build like any Jenkins or similar CI tool does but on a rootless Docker container.

I've understood that the F-Droid policy is to retrieve and locally build any distribuited software's dependency (while for example on TravicCI Omni Notes is built by using compiled dependencies).

I'll give a look asap at the link @r0bbie reported to get more informations.

[relan]

Omni-Notes 5.2.15 still includes a proprietary component: com.google.android.gms:play-services-location (required by io.nlopez.smartlocation:library). That's a show stopper for F-Droid.

[r0bbie]

@federicoiosue if accurate, is there any reason for Omni Notes including this at present?

Seen the update on the forum post that Jitpack is now allowed, which is great news.

[federicoiosue]

I've already prepared the script to build Omni Notes using the FDroid framework but I'm having some issues on my machine and few time at the moment to work on that. I'll eventually attach it here, maybe someone has a clean machine that will cause less issues.

For what concerns io.nlopez.smartlocation:library I'm using it because it's a nice wrapper around geolocation code with support for Observers (reactive java).
Actually I'm using its open-source implementation (the same I used before into the app, manually crafted) but from what you're saying it includes closed source code at compile time.
I'll give a look to newer version to see if that's already been implemented, otherwise mi idea is to fork it and prepare a FOSS-compatible version of it.

[qazip]

Any news regarding this? I would like to see ON on fdroid.

[federicoiosue]

@mimf, @r0bbie I've submitted on their new issue tracker: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/issues/16

[federicoiosue]

Omni Notes is now available on F-Droid

[CryptGoat]

Releases 5.5.3 and 5.5.4 are not available via F-Droid. Looks like those two version weren't detected as latest releases: https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/it.feio.android.omninotes.foss

[federicoiosue]

@CryptOwl It's due to #676 and #669