Create analytics-free flavor

[loicortola]

To help with the deployment to alternative stores like F-Droid, all tier-libraries need to be FLOSS.
We should be fine within OSM Contributor, except for the Fabric.io analytics lib.

Suggestion:
Create a flavor without the library bundled into it.
This may require some refactoring and the creation of a wrapper with a "no-op" implementation for this flavor.

This issue is related to discussions ongoing in issue #166

[rugk]

Remember that you must not compile the properitary lib into the app, when you want to get on F-Droid. Just not using/disabling it with a wrapper is not enough.

[loicortola]

Absolutely, although you need a wrapper interface with two implementations: one that does no-op, one that calls the library.
If we don't do this, removing the library will not compile ;)

[IzzySoft]

Any news on this, @loicortola? The issue at F-Droid is still stalled waiting on this.

[rugk]

...or, alternatively, you switch to a FLOSS analytics library. (you get an antifeature badge then, but at least you are in F-Droid)

[IzzySoft]

As @rugk says. Two examples would be ACRA and Matomo, so you have some names at least.

[tuxayo]

In the hope to move this forward a bounty has been started:

[hferee]

I've started working on this, until I realised that Fabric is deprecated and, if I understand correctly, will be unusable in about a month from now.
Am I correct that that it is not worth making this no-op class anymore?
Should we instead focus on what analytics library you want to switch to?

[IzzySoft]

Mentioning another acceptable analytics framework from my F-Droid snippet: tracedroid (ACRA I've already mentioned above). If you stumble upon one I have not yet listed in said snippet, I gladly take hints!

[loicortola]

Hello guys,

latest update for JungleBus has been made last month and upgraded Fabric to Firebase.
We would be very interested if someone wanted to submit a PR with a tracedroid-ready flavor.