android: APK file is missing in releases for quite a while

Could you please continue attaching the .apk to the releases/ – or is there a specific reason you removed them from that place?

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State: closed
Created 7 years ago
Comments: 21 (3 by maintainers)

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@IzzySoft sorry for the long radio silence. I’ve been very busy with personal things lately. Our previous stance was that the app is distributed through Google Play only. The reson behind this was that many users sideloaded the .apk, never updated it again and then complained about long fixed bugs.

I’ve now attached the 1.2.7 .apk to the Github release for those interested in case the Google Play listing is not available in the future.

binarybucks on Dec 9, 2017

I removed the tag, it was not needed anyway. Thanks for pointing that out

binarybucks on Feb 23, 2019

This has been answered above:

OwnTracks relies on Google Play Services and is distributed through the Play Store. It does not meet F-Droid requirements and there are no plans to change that.

We are not interested in F-Droid and the only method we distribute the app is via the Play store.

jpmens on Dec 8, 2017