On Mittwoch, 10. Januar 2024 15:44:27 CET Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Mittwoch, 10. Januar 2024 15:22:50 CET Filipe Saraiva wrote: > > Just a doubt, KDE has several interesting mobile software which support > > Android but they are not available in Android stores, like Neochat, > > Tokodon, Alligator, Kasts, etc. > > Those apps are available in our F-Droid "stores": > https://community.kde.org/Android/F-Droid > > But I guess you mean the Google store (and maybe other proprietary Android > stores). > > > Why? Is that some technical reason related to our stack, person-power > > hour to work in provide these releases, or other thing? > > The lack of person-power is the most important reason. The technical process > is pretty straightforward nowadays, but someone needs to check if the apps > comply with the store policies. > > No. Wait. For new apps there's also a technical reason. For new apps Google > Play requires application bundles (AAB) instead of APKs. We can build AAB > (at least for Qt 5) on invent, but we cannot sign them yet. Shouldn't be to > hard to add given that it's mostly identical to APK signing. I'm going to > work on this once signing of Windows binaries is done.
Related to that: we probably want to use a new key for the AAB signing, as we have to hand that one out to Google when publishing AABs to their store AFAIU? Regards, Volker
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