flotilla/fdroid

F-Droid distribution

F-Droid builds use the application ID social.flotilla.fdroid. Preparation removes Firebase, Google Services, Plausible, and the ACINQ native secp256k1 library. Welshman's optional nostr-wasm accelerator uses its pure JavaScript verifier. The normal Play/Zapstore build is unchanged.

Background notifications use AndroidPushFallbackWorker: WorkManager polls the configured relays about every 15 minutes and posts local notifications. Android Doze and background scheduling can delay delivery further.

Pomade login, registration, and key recovery use the JavaScript Argon2 adapter. With Pomade's parameters (t=3, m=64 MiB, p=2, 32-byte output), a benchmark on a 2-core x86 machine measured 426 ms with hash-wasm versus 4.0 s with the adapter, with matching digests. Physical-device timing has not yet been measured.

Build

Preparation changes source and dependencies, so run it in a disposable checkout with the Node, pnpm, Java, Android SDK, and Gradle versions pinned by this repository.

corepack enable
./scripts/fdroid/prepare.sh
./scripts/fdroid/build.sh
cd android
./gradlew assembleFdroidRelease

After preparation and the asset build, run the BouncyCastle key-operation and BIP-340 vector tests from android/ with:

./gradlew :app:testFdroidDebugUnitTest --tests social.flotilla.notifications.FallbackSecp256k1Test

fdroid/app.gradle registers fdroid/tests only in the prepared checkout.

The unsigned APK is written to android/app/build/outputs/apk/fdroid/release/app-fdroid-release-unsigned.apk. F-Droid should run preparation before its source scan, run the asset build afterward, and use its configured Gradle runner for assembleFdroidRelease.

metadata/social.flotilla.fdroid.yml is the recipe to submit to fdroiddata. The listing's text, icon, feature graphic and per-version changelogs come from fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/ at the tag F-Droid builds. Preparation installs dependencies before F-Droid's source scan, so the recipe scan-ignores node_modules, which holds FLOSS build tools such as esbuild and sharp. The build server's JDK is older than the 21 Capacitor needs, so the recipe installs it from Debian trixie, along with Node from nodejs.org at a pinned checksum. None of that has been through fdroid build yet.

Updates

Stable releases use bare version tags such as 1.9.1, and the recipe checks tags matching ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$ against versionCode and versionName in android/app/build.gradle at that tag.

The initial fdroiddata submission must still review scanner exceptions for FLOSS build tools, optional OpenRouter use for a possible NonFreeNet declaration, and the final F-Droid signing certificate for Android App Links.