provide .apk builds

[DI555]

please, provide .apk builds in this repo 'releases' !
so, it will be possible to install Vanadium on usual android! ..and will be btw easy to update it on GrapheneOS!
as a result it gets more popularity to GrapheneOS!!!

[thestinger]

This can only be considered once #34 is resolved and the community has not been helping with it.

[thestinger]

A good example of why this can't happen, aside from a lot of the hardening for Vanadium being provided via GrapheneOS:

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GrapheneOS-Archive/platform_frameworks_av@7f7b234

Videos are broken for 64-bit browser builds without this OS level workaround, and it's likely a bug in the OS. The next step is fixing the problem in the OS.

[muznyo]

This can only be considered once #34 is resolved and the community has not been helping with it.

its resolved, is it possible now?

[thestinger]

We already provide Vanadium updates through our app repository.

[muznyo]

Are apks in github releases planned too?

[thestinger]

No. Our app repository can be used elsewhere but Vanadium isn't ready for use elsewhere.

[DI555]

what thing isn’t ready in Vanadium to be ready elsewhere ???

[rusty-snake]

From the README:

It depends on hardening and compatibility fixes in GrapheneOS rather than reinventing the wheel inside Vanadium. For example, GrapheneOS already provides a hardened malloc implementation so there's no need for Vanadium to replace it.

Vanadium would therefore only be half as useful in other Android systems as it is in GrapheneOS.