Provide Github downloadable release

[Metr0pl3x]

I often prefer getting my apps directly from devs and for the majority of my apps I use a feed app to track releases using githubs ability to append .atom to the release URL to notify of new releases. It would be great if you could provide a build on your release page too for this purpose to remove the dependency on F-Droid or using your repo page without the ability to track updates.

[dennisguse]

What about the nightly builds?

[Metr0pl3x]

Would it not be possible to make use of the unattended app update API the same way Signal and Newpipe for example manage theirs?

[dennisguse]

How do they do it?

OpenTracks gives you four options (beside self compiling):

• GitHub actions: if you are logged in an APK can be downloaded for each commit
• F-Droid nightly (hosted by @pstorch)
• F-Droid (official)
• PlayStore

[dennisguse]

PlayStore releases are build by me.

Quick question: why should the builds by the original devs be better? I would not trust my machine too much myself - so why would you trust it?

Problem with F-Droid: it is kind of slow (5-10 days delay is normal), but that's not a real problem.

And I would not use the GitHub Actions builds for anything critical (as it is not my Infrastructure that builds it).

[Metr0pl3x]

https://nitter.net/DanielMicay/status/1530722999040675840

[dennisguse]

Same old argument: it boils down to who's infrastructure you want/ have to trust.
If you don't like F-Droid, then don't use it.
You can also host a separate F-Droid repo and build all the applications yourself - the scripts are there and it is not 🚀 science.

If you want build from the developers of OpenTracks:

• you may use the provided nightly (separate F-Droid repo maintained by @pstorch); allows manual download as well
• or you may use the PlayStore build (provided by me).

Or you use the one that is build by Github for almost every commit: https://github.com/OpenTracksApp/OpenTracks/actions?query=workflow%3A%22Build+nightly%22++

But as long as we don't have reproducible builds (#418), you have to trust somebody.
In your case, I would rather recommend to build OpenTracks yourself.
Then you have to trust yourself 😎

[basings]

You can't use e.g. obtainium or other apps to fetch the nightly builds from github. Usually apps are published under /releases/ but not the nightlies

[dennisguse]

@basings our GitHub nightly build was meant for testing only.
It is just a convenience thing.

You can use @pstorch repo, which contains build for the main branch.

https://fdroid.storchp.de/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=99985A7E73DCB0B16C9BDDCE7A0B4996F88068AE7C771ED53E217E69CD1FF196