Add to fdroid store

[duggalsu]

Could you add this app on fdroid?

[duggalsu]

Just saw that the app has gms and firebase dependencies. The app cannot be published on fdroid with those dependencies.

Is there any chance for moving towards FOSS-only depencencies?

[oers]

I looked into this over a year ago and even created a foss branch:

https://github.com/oers/reversatile/tree/foss

I even made a release: https://github.com/oers/reversatile/tree/foss/project/release

But I never started the whole fdroid approach. It was kind of frightening , a lot of work/hassle and seemed to much work for something, that was not used.

Maybe I should look into it again.

The thing is: google analytics is really very helpful for such a small project and the feedback I get from google services is really good.

[duggalsu]

The foss branch option seems great!

You can look at some foss analytics options here -
https://opensourcestash.com/
https://developers.reverseeagle.org/

I have seen Countly being used in an app (don't remember which one now) - https://count.ly/web-analytics

Can the app run without firebase, or is it a critical component? It may be possible to use Gotify to implement push messaging - https://github.com/gotify

I may be able to help with adding the app on fdroid and integrating Gotify if that is possible.

[oers]

I brought the foss branch up to date.
All gms/analytics code was in Analytics.java, in this branch this class does virtually nothing. And I removed dependencies from gradle.

If you could help adding the app on frdroid, it would be greatly appreciated

[duggalsu]

Thanks! I may be able to work on it after a week.

[oers]

I will remove all google analytica dependencies this year, This should make it easier to be fully foss on the master branch. I will host an analytics software on my server,