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Really looking forward to the release!
does this means what I think it means ?
Yeah baby!
Just testing if commenting works.
Sent from Sync for Lemmy (just kidding)
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Exciting to see!
Man I’ve been checking the Play Store every single day to see if it’s available to download! I’m so excited!
Just want to say how good it felt to open up sync again and see my cat photos! You’re a hero, LJ!
Feels just like home >.<
I guess its just a limited release rn for beta testers or something like that ?
Let me innnnn
From Discord:
Tomorrow is the google play signup form for everyone else (pending google approving it)
oh hell yeah
Discord link? I can’t seem to find it anywhere
At the moment, yes
I see a lot of issues there already, is it available for download now? I haven’t gotten the email yet and I don’t see it on the Play Store
It’s an alpha release with only 100 testers at this stage.
And I wasn’t invited? :(
Sorry only 100 internal testers until Google fully approve. Gives me chance to fix some of the issues raised though!
No worries! I’m just thrilled to see it’s coming along nicely. I’m not going anywhere.
After Google approval, what is the size of the tester pool?
There is only a limit of 100 testers in internal testing. Other channels (Closed testing, open testing and production) doesn’t have any limit at all, but every update of app needs Google approval, which can take some time. Also, Google needs to approve post of the app (title, description, icons, etc…) even without uploading an app which can also take some time. Source: I’m developer (not of this app of course)
Had the same thought. Glad it’s not just me.
Nice !
Ahhhhh man I was traveling today and missed the sign up. The horrorrrrrrrrrrrr.
So excited
Nice!
Will it be released to F-Droid at the same time as the Google Play store?
Sync is not open source and Fdroid only allows open source.
The main repo is open source only, but there are others
Adding other repos that have nothing to do with f-droid has nothing to do with f-droid… calling 3rd party repos f-droid just because you are able to add them to their app is disingenuous and shows a lack of understanding of what f-droid actually is.
F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform.
That is the first sentence on their official site.
Fdroid is just a program that lets you download apps from repos. Why would an Fdroid repo have nothing to do with Fdroid?
F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform.
That is the first sentence on their official site. Again, just because they have an app that allows you to add other repos doesn’t mean those other repos are a part of f-droid… they are not, and it’s absolutely ridiculous to say otherwise.
Why would an Fdroid repo have nothing to do with Fdroid?
Because those other repos are not f-droid repos, they are 3rd party repos that have nothing to do with f-droid. Just because you can add them to the f-droid app doesn’t mean they then become f-droid repos. I use droidify, and I can add any repo to it that I want including f-droid, but that doesn’t mean that all the repos I add to it then become droidify repos.
You misunderstand how package managers work.
Your aggressive tone is predictably inappropriate considering your failure at applying simple logic. You would only have a partial excuse if you’re 11y/o or something.
There is f-droid the app store, and
f-droid.org’s main repo. See, it’s not that hard.just because they have an app that allows you to add other repos doesn’t mean those other repos are a part of f-droid
And that app is called… get it?
Because those other repos are not f-droid repos
Repos made to work in the f-droid app are not f-droid repos… wow
Is the
f-droid.org’s archive repo not an f-droid repo, too. lol.Please tell me you’re not an adult!
The thing is, you started on the right track:
Sync is not open source and Fdroid only allows open source.
Here, you are on the right. And you could have followed up later by simply pointing out that “Will it be released to F-Droid” usually means “Will it be on
f-droid.org’s FOSS-only main repo”, but you decided to rant some weird incoherent shit, and insisted on dying on a hell of straws instead!Your aggressive tone is predictably inappropriate considering your failure at applying simple logic.
Lmao, is that a projection of some sort? Are you able to read the tone of your reply to me? Yeah, don’t cast stones if you live in a glass house my guy. You are a hypocrite at best… I won’t attack you any further.
The repos made to work with f-droid are f-droid compatible repos… they are not f-droid repos. There is only one f-droid repo, and that is their actual, official repo. All other 3rd party repos, are f-droid compatible repos. I’m so sorry you can’t follow this basic logic… it’s outlined on their official site… unless you can show me on their official site where they refer to 3rd party repos directly as “f-droid repos” then you’re the one that struggles with simple logic.
fdroid compatible repo != fdroid repo
Just saying, nobody loves a pedant.
Looks like you’re talking from personal experience based on your comment history, but I’m not being a pendant… I’m making a very simple correction. And I did so patiently. F-droid does not want their project to be conflated with 3rd party repos so people shouldn’t do it. It’s that fucking simple… I’m really not sure why this has been difficult to understand, nor why it required any further explanation, nor why it prompted personal attacks from insecure douchnozzles.
Thanks for editing your comments to change the meaning of them and shift the focus of my comment instead of telling me why you wouldn’t like Sync for Lemmy to host its own Fdroid repo as was the intended focus of my original comment.
I’m clarifying. I’m trying to decide the best way to frame it because you quite obviously still don’t understand by your latest comment.
Sync can not be in the f-droid repo because it is not open source. End of story.
You clearly think any 3rd party repo that can be added to f-droid is called an f-droid repo, and that is flat out wrong.
Has LJ said it’ll run without Google Play? I certainly hope so.
I was previously using Sync via F-Droid as my mobile reddit client, so I was assuming it would be an option for the Lemmy version, but I haven’t seen/heard one way or the other.
Are you sure about that? F-Droid only allows OSS software and old Sync was proprietary, and actually strictly locked down and DRMd (it was one of the few pieces of software I’d always have to fully reinstall when switching custom ROMs because of the DRM). The only thing I could imagine would be a custom repository added to the F-Droid client, that has pirated software.
It’s not open source
