Would be nice to see your app at F-Droid

[IzzySoft]

With your app being Open Source and, if I read your gradle files right, also without proprietary components, it would be nice to have it available at F-Droid – for those who cannot or wantnot use Playstore, and for those who appreciate the extra safety F-Droid gives (checking the source and compiling directly from it, so no "nasty stuff" should sneak in).

Assuming you'd appreciate it being available there, I've opened a Request For Packaging with F-Droid. The F-Droid tream would much appreciate if you could use tags (see Creating Releases in the Github Help), as then new versions could be picked automatically.

[saulhdev]

Hello IzzySoft, for sure I will upload the app to F-Droid in the next days.
I have not done yet since I'm the working alone on this project and i work few hours of my free time only.

I will check the request for packaging this week.

Thank you for your interest

[IzzySoft]

Hi @otakuhqz and thanks for your positive response! No need for you to "upload" anything to F-Droid. Just creating the proper tag(s) will do so F-Droid also can react on updates automatically (whenever you create a new tag; best is having the tag and version name in sync, e.g. using a tag v1.2.3 for version 1.2.3). F-Droid builds APKs from (your) source, they don't take binaries.

PS: When you're on it, there seems to be some issue with your gradle (just follow up the link I gave for details). A minor thing and easy to fix as I've been told (I'm no dev, so I don't know ;)

[saulhdev]

Hi @IzzySoft, can you please advise how can I (or you) run the f-droid bot to scan the app?
I have checked and it doesn't appear in the F-Droid platform yet.

Thanks

[IzzySoft]

Thanks for the heads-up! The bot has already been run. Now it needs a dev to make the build recipe. The issue is still open, and F-Droid is permanently "under-staffed". I've just pinged 3 of our devs, so one of them hopefully picks up soon.

[Rudloff]

Now that #7 is resolved, we only need a more comprehensive description (the one in the README is very short).

@otakuhqz Would it be possible to expand your README to explain in more details the main features of this launcher and what are the differences with OpenLauncher and Lawnchair?

[offa]

Just landed: https://f-droid.org/de/packages/org.zimmob.zimlx/ 👍

[IzzySoft]

Thanks to all who helped! @otakuhqz I close this issue then as it is solved.