F-Droid can't build anymore since com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads(-lite) are not open-source.

[lfourquaux]

F-Droid can't build anymore since com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads(-lite) are not open-source.

Originally posted by @licaon-kter in #17 (comment)

The F-Droid version is increasingly outdated, it would be nice to have a fully open source, up to date version of UnicodePad.

[TPS]

@Ryosuke839 What's needed is a flavor to include only what's acceptable to build for F-droid.

@licaon-kter, @IzzySoft: Any pointers on how to do such would be much appreciated. 🙇🏾‍♂️

[IzzySoft]

I'm neither dev nor packager – so the only advice I can give is check with other apps which have done that (setting up separate flavors). In our *.yml files you can tell them by using gradle with a specific name, e.g.

gradle:
  - foss

foss and fdroid are quite common with those, so a egrep '^\s*- (fdroid|foss)' *.yml should help identifying them.

[t-8ch]

@Ryosuke839 Would you accept a pullrequest for such a build variant?

[Ryosuke839]

@t-8ch Yes! I will definitely accept on this repo once I validate the behavior.

[t-8ch]

@Ryosuke839 Thanks!
@TPS Welp, I managed to mess up the PR, it should against the repo of @Ryosuke839 obviously :-)

[TPS]

@t-8ch You mentioned a problem in your PR, anyway. Probably better to fix there than PR here until it's resolved? Or not: #74

[t-8ch]

@TPS it's more of a validation issue. I expect it to actually work, but for some reason the Ads are not shown at all for me, even in the origin version.
If any changes are necessary I can do those in this PR easily.

[TPS]

@IzzySoft Now that #74 is merged, is anything else needed to have F-Droid start publishing this again?

[t-8ch]

I think the timeline would be:

• Wait for a new release of UnicodePad (I would just for the one containing Unicode 14)
• Update the fdroid definitions to activate the "fdroid" flavor

[linsui]

2.9.1 will be published soon. See https://monitor.f-droid.org/builds/running. When the next release available please open an MR the update the build recipe.