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[Rudloff]

Hello,

Would you be interested in publishing this app on F-Droid?

[Swati4star]

@Rudloff Sure! You can add a merge request for this project on FdroidData.

[Rudloff]

Great!

Would it be possible to tag releases?
This makes packaging a lot easier.

[Swati4star]

Hi @Rudloff ! Sure. Just specify the tag format you want me to create. Also, make the app auto update on Fdroid.

[Rudloff]

If we want to enable auto update, the easiest way is to have tags that match the version name of the app (e.g. 2.0 for the current version).

[Swati4star]

https://github.com/project-travel-mate/Travel-Mate/releases/tag/2.0

Let me know if you want me to do any other change.

[Rudloff]

It looks good to me, I will try to work on it next week.

[Rudloff]

Sorry, I just noticed you are using some Play Services libraries:

Travel-Mate/Android/app/build.gradle

Line 55 in 0f22d56

implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:15.0.1'

Unfortunately, these are not open-source so we can't include it in F-Droid (unless we could build a variant of your app wihtout these libraries but that's probably a lot of work).

[Swati4star]

We need maps in our application. After all, this is a travel app!

[Rudloff]

If you are interested, there are some open-source alternatives to Google Maps like osmdroid.

I'm sorry, I didn't notice this dependency when I first had a look at your code. But I'm afraid this means we can't publish it on F-Droid.

[Swati4star]

Hi @Rudloff ! We have removed the usage of google maps, and replaced it with osmdroid.
Can you check if it can be published on f-droid now?

[Rudloff]

That is great!
It should be OK now. I will start working on packaging the app.

[Rudloff]

@Swati4star I created a build recipe for the app: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/merge_requests/3803
I just had to remove the http://repo.commonsware.com.s3.amazonaws.com repository (not sure how it is used).

Do you think it would be possible to add Git tags for 3.9.2 and future releases? It makes packaging updates a lot easier.

[Swati4star]

Hi @Rudloff
Sure, I'll add git tag for current & future releases as well.
https://github.com/project-travel-mate/Travel-Mate/releases/tag/3.9.2

[Swati4star]

I think, adding https to the url will solve the issue.

[Swati4star]

The gitlab build should pass after this commit, 25ed727

I have created a new release with the above commit included also.

[Rudloff]

Everything works correctly now, thanks!

[Swati4star]

Do share the fdroid link, when it is merged on gitlab.

[guest4711]

It's on f-droid now: Travel Mate (A complete travel guide) - https://f-droid.org/app/io.github.project_travel_mate

[LuccoJ]

I've opened an issue concerning the app at https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/issues/1429 because I feel it's not presented in an ideal way in its F-Droid description. I would appreciate if the app's developers could weigh in on the stated concerns, as they would necessarily be the best-informed parties about the services the application makes use of and their status wrt tracking and freedom.

Please keep in mind that while my issue may sound like criticism of the application, the goal is just to have applications consistently described in F-Droid and let users know what to expect.

[Swati4star]

I'll update the readme soon to incorporate your comments 💯