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Support F-Droid, APK

See original GitHub issue

Current Implementation

Currently, the app is available in (Android) Google Play Store and Huawei AppGallery. So-called “degoogled” phones have no “Play Store” or AppGallery access, mostly because they run on modified/unofficial firmware (for example: LineageOS) and/or smartphone owners might not like proprietary software and/or smartphone owners might be banned by Google for any reason.

Suggested Enhancement

I suggest to support inclusion in F-Droid. This requires a build that follows their inclusion policy.

In addition to, or alternatively, I suggest to build an APK and release it here on GitHub (possibly using only free dependencies).

Expected Benefits

Supporting F-Droid and freely available APKs will help the community, as no private company can interfere with the app distribution. Use free libraries means that no bad behaviors can be injected into apps (no tracking, etc).

Alternative Enhancement

If you don’t want to support F-Droid or freely available APKs, would you authorize a community-driven fork to access to get.dgc.gov.it APIs?

Issue Analytics

  • State:open
  • Created 2 years ago
  • Reactions:20
  • Comments:15

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dottorblastercommented, Jan 28, 2022

If you ask the Ministry directly (& politely), you’ll get an answer.

i honestly don’t see how these requests are unpolite.

Anyway, what is the specific paragraph in these documents that prevents a software artifact built from the sources in this repo to be uploaded to an arbitrary artfiact hub instead of Google Play? I still see that possibilty as feasible, am I wrong?

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dottorblastercommented, Jan 28, 2022

@rawmain capisco, e ti ringrazio infinitamente della risposta, tuttavia mi sfugge il motivo per cui l’apertura di un canale di distribuzione ulteriore sia qualcosa, proprio per via dei documenti linkati e parlando di puri dettagli implementativi, non alla portata del team di sviluppo / technical execution. Dato il mindset che viene fatto trasparire dall’eccelente esecuzione del triage delle issue e dall’apertura del progetto su una piattaforma come Github, possiamo aspettarci un determinato grado di attenzione verso questa issue o il modello di governance di questo repository prevede che vada mandata una PEC per interagire con il team (non team di sviluppo, ma team in accezione allargata: product department, et al.) a qualsiasi livello che sia leggermente superiore alla segnalazione di bug?

Riguardo ai toni, nonostante reputo che sia vero che ci si sia scaldati un po’, d’altro canto non posso dare torto agli “opinionated rant vs big corp” perché poi la fotografia dello stato dell’arte è più o meno quella. Spero sia volontà di qualcuno correggere questa fotografia (e di conseguenza l’opinione pubblica).

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