Automattic / Automattic/simplenote-android

F-Droid third party repository

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Description

Please consider making a third party f-droid repo to make the app more accessible for f-droid users. This is something that other projects like collabora office are doing, see [link to repo](https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/collabora-office-on-mobiles-supporting-password-protected-documents-and-available-on-f-droid/).

This is a low hanging fruit as it is not nearly as much work as modifying the source code to match the f-droid inclusion criteria as was discussed in #382. This way we would have a trusted repo providing automatic updates, rather the manual process of apk downloads from the releases.

I'm aware that this is already possible via the the Izzi f-droid repo but that repo contains a lot of other apps and that adds a lot of unnecessary cruft.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing issue #382 and the linked Collabora Office example to understand the proposed third-party F-Droid repository approach. Done means providing a trusted repository for this app with automatic updates instead of requiring users to download APKs manually.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
android
Domain
mobile, release
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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