Android build released on F-Droid #1290

kerpan · 2017-02-03T13:54:29Z

It would be great to have the jitsi meet build released on F-Droid. Is there any plan to release it there?

saghul · 2017-02-13T08:28:10Z

On Feb 3, 2017, at 14:54, Davide Michelino ***@***.***> wrote: It would be great to have the jitsi meet build released on F-Droid <http://f-droid.org/>. Is there any plan to release it there?

Hi, I don’t think we have considered it. Do you happen to have a link to some documentation on how the process would go?

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-- Saúl

kerpan · 2017-02-17T01:27:08Z

Yes, this is the inclusion how-to and this is the inclusion policy. Would be really great to have it there!

saghul · 2017-02-17T08:52:23Z

Thanks! I'll check those out.

GitanHubert · 2017-02-19T09:59:17Z

Meet Jitsi on F-Droid : Very good suggestion.

lanodan · 2017-04-14T12:51:41Z

Or even have a link to download the APK. (I had to download it like warez, WTF)

ghost · 2017-06-12T17:56:08Z

Or even have a link to download the APK. (I had to download it like warez, WTF)

Yes, same here... a very bad process of getting an open source app.

robinpaulson · 2017-07-10T09:46:26Z

Someone has asked the F-droid maintainers to include Jitsi in the repository. The issue is here:
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/issues/73

It would be appreciated if you could assist with any issues which come up, for instance dependencies, binary blobs, build scripts, etc.

Cheers,

Robin

saghul · 2017-07-10T12:59:13Z

@robinpaulson Thanks for doing that Robin! I left a comment in case they need our help.

@lanodan @Tony-il-Capo We currently only provide it via the Play store, but of course you can compile it yourself.

lanodan · 2017-07-19T22:52:04Z

@saghul
Downloading via Google is not a solution. (specially if you don’t have Google installed)
Building android apps is a horrible mess, specially if your OS/distro is not like debian/ubuntu. (And I’m used to compile things)

Seriously I fail to see how that can be considered okay, I hope I misunderstood.

saghul · 2017-07-19T23:31:26Z

@lanodan Time is not infinite, so we do what we can given time constraints. "It never rains to everyone's taste", I'm afraid.

Our currently supported distribution mechanism is the Play Store. Period. F-Droid is in the works, as you read above, but that's out of our control. I did volunteer to help in any capacity required but I haven't been contacted back. You can try to download the APK from one of those APK mirrors, though I cannot recommend one. And last, you can compile it yourself.

If none of the above work for you, I'm sorry, but there is nothing I can do to help you.

vn971 · 2017-07-24T23:39:19Z

lanodan, you can also use gplaycli on Linux or yalp from F-Droid to download apk-s.

@saghul Thanks for your work, I hope F-Droid guys or enthusiasts will reply to you in time. I personally stick to F-Droid and have a very, very limited number of apps outside of F-Droid. This is because fdroid is a serious and respected review stage, passing which means the app is compatible with a lot of requirements (all of which I agree to).

robinpaulson · 2017-07-26T05:35:43Z

@saghul I appreciate you getting in touch on the f-droid issues page. As you may have worked out, there is a bit of a backlog for adding apps to f-droid. If you are interested in helping out, there is a process to speed things along, I will see if I can find the links and post them here.

saghul · 2017-07-26T07:11:34Z

@vn971 I didn't know about gplaycli, it looks useful, thanks! Also, I don't disagree with anything you said :-)

@robinpaulson Thanks! What kind of help would be needed?

robinpaulson · 2017-07-26T07:16:48Z

@saghul
How to add the app yourself - actually, anyone can do this.
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/README.md
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

saghul · 2017-07-26T07:31:28Z

@robinpaulson Sweet! I'll give it a try this weekend if time allows!

robinpaulson · 2017-09-08T07:19:04Z

@saghul Are you getting on OK with the inclusion in gitlab? If you need help, do ask!

saghul · 2017-09-08T07:59:46Z

Alas I'm quite swamped right now, so I never got the chance to look at it... yet!

ghost · 2017-09-28T13:40:01Z

+1

On 09/28/2017 03:36 PM, Lyubomir Marinov wrote:

Dear F-Droid proponents,

The desire to have Jitsi Meet for Android released in F-Droid has been
duly noted at #1290. I'd
encourage you to please "react" there with "+1" so that it's easier
for us to track how hot a feature request is.

Why is Jitsi Meet for Android not released in F-Droid yet? Because:
(1) We're releasing on both Android and iOS so taking on a third
release process requires additional and repetitive involvement on our
side.
(2) Having F-Droid build our young source code base in which builds
are not reproducible yet and (3) which also links with
Fabric/Crashlytics are not trivial matters.

(I personally want Jitsi Meet for Android on Amazon Appstore as well.)

Best regards,
Lyubo Marinov

labiloute · 2017-10-01T07:37:38Z

+1 !

jpggithub · 2017-10-30T07:41:48Z

+1

sjjh · 2017-12-24T12:13:17Z

+1

mvgorcum · 2018-01-16T09:36:42Z

+1

luke1987515 · 2018-01-16T09:40:40Z

+1

ghost · 2018-01-16T13:20:05Z

+1

ddevault · 2018-01-16T15:23:35Z

+1

vn971 · 2018-01-16T15:29:24Z

Guys, there is a "react with emoji" action instead of +1. Even though I completely agree with the need to have an F-Droid build.

Rudloff · 2019-01-20T18:03:48Z

/builds/mvglasow/Navit-fdroid/fdroiddata/build/org.jitsi.meet/node_modules/react-native-background-timer/package.json (No such file or directory)

It looks like NPM dependencies were not installed.

You might want to have a look at how we build other React Native apps on F-Droid.
We don't use the react-native command and instead do something like this manually:

npm install
cd android
gradle assemble

(But Jitsi Meet might have some additional build steps.)

mvglasow · 2019-01-20T18:05:48Z

@Rudloff great to see you here! Do you happen to have any examples of other React Native apps on F-Droid? (I wasn’t even aware Jitsi Meet was not the only one…)

Rudloff · 2019-01-20T18:09:36Z

You can check the following build recipes:

com.lesspass.android
de.fragdenstaat.app
com.mdroid

saghul · 2019-01-21T10:55:06Z

For all intents and purposes our use of React Native can be counted as anecdotal. It's an implementation detail. You can build it as a regular Android package. The extra step you need to fllow is installing all dependencies with npm i.

If you make a debug build, however, you'd need to start the React Native packager, but you don't need that.

We currently have no tag for mobile releases but are about to start doing it (next release will have one).

mvglasow · 2019-01-21T12:14:16Z

Anecdotal… well, you do need React Native installed to build it :-)

Re tags for mobile releases, will they follow a particular pattern? F-Droid can do some regex-based filtering, so if there were e.g. a prefix used for all mobile releases (and only for those), that would be quite easy.

mvglasow · 2019-01-21T12:47:12Z

@Rudloff I tried one of those build recipes. I had to run npm install with sudo or else it would fail. The truncate/rm operations fail because the respective files are not found, so I just appended || true to see what happens afterwards. After that, the build process fails with the same error as above.

This might be related to my CI setup, I’ve documented details at https://gitlab.com/mvglasow/fdroiddata/issues/1 and would be grateful if you could take a look.

Rudloff · 2019-01-21T13:08:00Z

I just noticed the app uses several non-free libraries:

jitsi-meet/android/app/build.gradle

Line 85 in 54df0f5

implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:16.0.6'

This will prevent the app from being included in F-Droid as we require included libraries to be FOSS.

mvglasow · 2019-01-21T13:14:45Z

Is there any way to build Jitsi Meet without FCM? If not, that would be a blocker.

saghul · 2019-01-21T14:38:45Z

Anecdotal… well, you do need React Native installed to build it :-)

Not really, you need all npm dependencies installed, and RN is distributed in as an npm package, so I don't see the problem there. Can you clarify?

Re tags for mobile releases, will they follow a particular pattern? F-Droid can do some regex-based filtering, so if there were e.g. a prefix used for all mobile releases (and only for those), that would be quite easy.

Yes. We haven't decided exactly on the pattern, but it will be a consistent one.

saghul · 2019-01-21T14:45:39Z

Is there any way to build Jitsi Meet without FCM? If not, that would be a blocker.

Yes and no. FCM is not a hard requirement, so a build time toggle to disable it would be ok. I wonder if we can do it with this variable:

jitsi-meet/android/app/build.gradle

Line 3 in 6190173

boolean googleServicesEnabled = project.file('google-services.json').exists()

Then here: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/android/app/src/main/java/org/jitsi/meet/MainActivity.java#L194 we'll need to use the full package notation to avoid the imports.

I think that would be all.

I'll keep this in mind and take care of it as time allows, but if someone wants to send a PR, that would be most welcome.

webmind · 2019-01-22T14:07:07Z

Would be very welcome for me as well, yalp needs a google account here and gplaycli don't work for me on ubuntu bionic and I've got a google-free smartphone.

Thanks!

vn971 · 2019-01-24T10:40:45Z

@webmind offtopic, but Yalp certainly doesn't require a personal google account. There were some occasions when it was laggy, but otherwise it works just fine (using built-in accounts). Retrying later helps at times.

rasos · 2019-04-11T16:28:47Z

Could we have an F-Droid version without Google Crashlytics and Firebase Analytics? See https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/37219/

saghul · 2019-04-30T19:26:31Z

I've made some progress on this. #4155 allows to build Jitsi Meet without any analytics nor Google Play Services.

If I can get this landed by in the next Jitsi Meet version (19.2.0) it would be the right time to restart the F-Drop release effort, by taking that tag and rebuilding it with the LIBRE_BUILD env var.

raphj · 2019-07-05T11:19:33Z

For reference: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/issues/73#note_188026138

PanderMusubi · 2019-09-03T06:20:34Z

Android build released on F-Droid #1290

Android build released on F-Droid #1290

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