Android client on F-Droid about spotube HOT 19 CLOSED

To give you a "quick taste" I've just added your app to my repo (will show up at the link in about 5h from now with the next sync). Some (Android-App) screenshots would be much appreated (you see it looks quite "naked" now), I could then provide you with a "fastlane starter package".

One more thing I've noticed: you're not taking care for the versionCode, which is still set to 1 despite of multiple versions have been released already. Android uses versionCodeto tell versions apart, so it's important to inrease that with eah release. This being a Flutter app, the proper place would be here in pubspec.yaml, which should read something like

version: 2.1.0-pre+9

(i.e. <versionName>+<versionCode>).

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Awesome news everyone Spotube is finally available in the official F-Droid repositories🎉
Now you can directly download Spotube from F-Droid client application

Special thanks to💖:

• @IzzySoft
• @linsui
• @momobobe

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Gladly! And happy to read 😃 So I'll remove it from my repo then after a ~10 day overlap (unless you insist I keep it) to avoid confusion with signatures and stuff?

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I've been actually working in this recently but I think the process to upload a simple application to F-Droid is kind of overly complicated & the steps documented in the documentation is kind of confusing too. It's possible that I'm new to F-Droid (actually haven't heard of it before this Issue) & that is why its hard for me
But if you/anyone is experienced in F-Droid, if possible please simplify the process & give a clear & concise idea about how can I make my app available in the F-Droid repository

It'll massively help this project's Android part

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I added descriptions & screenshots. Now as far as I know I've to fork fdroid/data repo in gitlab, create a branch with my appId & a oss.krtirtho.spotube.yaml file with build+update instructions in the metadata directory
I did that part but the build fails in parts

• Here's the metadata file
• build error logs

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Great news everyone. My PR to add Spotube to fdroid has been merged recently. So Spotube should be available on F-Droid's official repository from tomorrow

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So I'll remove it from my repo then after a ~10 day overlap (unless you insist I keep it) to avoid confusion with signatures and stuff

As you say, you can remove it from your repo if you want

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Okay, thanks! Should you need it back later for some reason, just let me know. Easy enough to re-establishas I'll just archive the metadata then.

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For starters, it would help to have some description and screenshots ready – ideally in Fastlane structures. I've stumbled upon this for the 3rd time now thinking if I should add it to my repo – but without descriptions and screenshots wouldn't know what to put 😉

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@KRTirtho Thanks for taking note. Yes fdroid is a great platform for open source apps. Unfortunately i am not much of a developer, but will definitely see what i can do and get back to you. Meanwhile if you find a way, do keep us posted

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@KRTirtho thanks for your efforts! As pointed out, I'll gladly help you get it going (disclosure: I'm one of the F-Droid maintainers). Mentioned Fastlane structures would be the first step (for starters, just the short_description.txt and full_description.txt for en-US would do, though I highly recommend to include some screenshots, too). With that in place, I could run a pre-check by adding your app to m repo (which often serves as stepping stone on the way to F-Droid.org – literally hundreds of apps went this way already).

For simplicity, let's do it step by step – this first stage passed I'd lead you on, choosing the easy approach. As the saying goes: many roads lead to Rome. The one you mentioned is "the king's road", there are easier ones available 😉

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I fixed most of the part & now the build works mostly fine but before building I also have to generate some secrets that are used in the application (see here) but I don't see anyway to do that in F-Droid's metadata/build-schema file
@IzzySoft Is there anyway I can use secrets at build in F-Droid?

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I've just checked your metadata, and first a few notes on that:

• short_description.txt is limited to 80 chars (hence "short"), yours is much longer and thus will be truncated
• if in full_description.txt you'd insert another line break directly before the bullet point list, that'd be properly formatted as Markdown (and I could then use it with my repo)
• screenshots are fine, just updated the listing with my repo (taking effect with the next sync around 6 pm UTC today)

Now let's have a look at your logs.

• YAML:
  • Please remove summary & description there, else they're not taken from fastlane
  • If you're using FUNDING.yml (which you do), the OpenCollective: entry can be removed as well (it's taken from FUNDING.yml then which, like Fastlane, gives you the flexibility to update it anytime without requiring another MR to get it into effect)
  • all else looks fine (though I'm not sure if the output: line is needed. Doesn't hurt IMHO, though)
• build log: the message is quite clear, it says "fdroidserver.exception.VCSException: Git checkout of 'v2.10.2' failed". Reason is quite obvious as well: there is no such tag 🤣 Cause is… uh? Strange. Why is it going for v2.10.2? I see that nowhere in the YAML. Ah, wait, that's Flutter. And that has a 2.10.2 – but I have no idea what adds the v in front. I've checked with other YAMLs in our metadata, and see several with [email protected] and [email protected], so the syntax should work. Could it be the fix 6h ago was removing the v there?
• secrets: no idea, I'm not an Android dev. You could ask that at the Matrix/IRC channel, or search the issues/the forum.

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I fixed most of the part & now the build works mostly fine but before building I also have to generate some secrets that are used in the application (see here) but I don't see anyway to do that in F-Droid's metadata/build-schema file
@IzzySoft Is there anyway I can use secrets at build in F-Droid?

@linsui sorry for bothering, but could you please help figure out the possibility?

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@KRTirtho maybe you can open (if not yet) an issue there https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp and then somebody might see and help. Also you may call some of their team members (like licaon-kter, linsui, izzysoft) there to review your merge request

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@momobobe You can follow the progress here

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@momobobe I've already submitted the app in fdroiddata after I was able to make a successful build in my fork. Now its only hold for review https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/11101

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Thanks a lot for your help & support

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@shom13 @KRTirtho please close this issue if it's already resolved.

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