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Great site and nice UI. Congratulations. Issues/sugestions: 1. Couldn't find an option to add my app. 2. Screenshots of apps would be nice (some people might be more interested in the app itself than in the source code).
You can add your app by submitting it to F-Droid. This is just a front end.
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I know, it's a side project to learn Symfony 2. I love F-Droid project so i made this web app, I've contacted the authors of F-droid before doing this. Thanks :)
Your project looks great! Is its source available? It'd be nice to add a link the the f-droid page for each application, where such a page exists.
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Google has made it so you can't enforce APK signatures via PKI on android os. Gee, I wonder why!
Sure you can. Android itself just doesn't do it for you, but the F-Droid installer could very well verify the APK before installing it.
I think some people are confused/missing the point. This isn't competing with F-Droid, it IS F-Droid. Everything from the statistics to the APK downloads (notice the redirect) are sourced from https://f-droid.org/ . It's a beautiful front end and necessary improvement over what exists, but it's complementary not competitive. My $0.02: 1. Link to download button to the app entry in F-Droid so I can download it from th…
Yes, isn't competing with F-Droid...it's just a frontend for F-Droid with popularity data.
Being open source, you're free to do whatever you like, but I suggest you talk with the F-Droid devs to make sure everything is mutually beneficial.
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Yes, isn't competing with F-Droid...it's just a frontend for F-Droid with popularity data.
Your download links point to the most recent version of the app, which is not always the recommended version available from F-Droid. Recommended versions are marked with a star. For example, http://fossdroid.com/a/fdroid.html serves a download of 0.86 which is an unstable test version. All of this is handled better by the F-Droid client app. The way your site is set up now could lead to a poor user experience if they…
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Sure you can. Android itself just doesn't do it for you, but the F-Droid installer could very well verify the APK before installing it.
No doubt. But it's pretty funny that Google refuses to add a few lines of code to do it via the OS installer.
This is a nice way to feature and popularize open source software. It would be nice to have a way to integrate the repo with each individual app. May the play store should have a section like this.
I really like the popular "popular" sections, the one thing that's missing from f-droid. What could be improved: 1. HTTPS, especially for APK downloads 2. Information about the APKs: built/signed by whom
Having said this, they definitely seem to be useful as a general rule of thumb about how apps are more popular, _relative to other apps_.
[0] - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/stats/total...
[1] - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/stats/total...
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In Windows world, you basically have to use SHA1 digests for digital signatures (though you use SHA2 certs to do the signing) as Windows XP doesn't support SHA2 at all, Windows Vista SP1 or SP2 prior to a patch a view years ago won't run the EXE or show an error due to a buffer overrun, and Windows Vista's Internet Explorer full patched will show the download as "reported unsafe" due to an unfixed bug in IE.
What do APK signatures have to do with Windows?