German Fdroid build

[jugendhacker]

I'm currently trying to get the German version updated on F-Droid, because I saw it was updated to the new source in Playstore. I only have two questions:

• Is there some kind of documentation how to build an specific language pack?
• Could you tag the version released on Playstore?

[martholomew]

I think there is something about F-Droid that isn't working, @menny do you know what's up?

[menny]

there is an issue with fdroid: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/issues/1882#note_266142736

[menny]

regarding the technicals of how to publish to fdroid, in the upcoming weeks I'll add an artifact to the CI deploy task that will generate the required fdroid entries (this is similar to what's already available in AnySoftKeyboard).

[jugendhacker]

@menny you could also just tag the versions you release in playstore and fdroid could pick it up automatically.....

[menny]

I'm not aware of that mechanism. how do we set that up with fdroid?

[jugendhacker]

You can find it here... you need to set it to Tags

[menny]

I don't think it will work for us, due to the way we version the packs (if I understand correctly).
We have automatic versioning, where each commit, or build, produce a new version.
Our AndroidManifest file does not include version information, instead, it is calculated in build time.