[Server-devel] [XSCE] Proposal: f-droid on the xsce

Anish Mangal anishmg at umich.edu
Fri Oct 7 10:15:53 EDT 2016


Based on a quick chat on #irc.. the repo has over 2000 apps with 3 apks on
avg per app, and sizes in the range 1-20MB. Total size in the 100GB
ballpark. MIrroring doesnt sound too complicated

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 4:25 AM, Tim Moody <tim at timmoody.com> wrote:

> Really. How big is it and how do you get it?
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> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Anish Mangal <anishmg at umich.edu>
> Date: 10/6/16 6:57 AM (GMT-08:00)
> To: xsce-devel <xsce-devel at googlegroups.com>
> Cc: server-devel <server-devel at lists.laptop.org>
> Subject: Re: [XSCE] Proposal: f-droid on the xsce
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> Do you mean the fdroid apk? I am talking about mirroring the fdroid repo
> on the server :)
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> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Tim Moody <tim at timmoody.com> wrote:
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>> I have downloaded the mediwiki directly from a link on xsce and also used
>> fdroid.  If there is a link I prefer that, but I was thinking we should
>> include fdroid as a download from the server.
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>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
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>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Anish Mangal <anishmg at umich.edu>
>> Date: 10/4/16 11:06 AM (GMT-08:00)
>> To: server-devel <server-devel at lists.laptop.org>, xsce-devel <
>> xsce-devel at googlegroups.com>
>> Subject: [XSCE] Proposal: f-droid on the xsce
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>> Often times, users need to install apps on their android phone without
>> internet connectivity. One application that allows this is f-droid.
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>> https://f-droid.org/
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>> While it is easily possible to download apks hosted by apache, using an
>> application like f-droid might offer better ux.
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>> Thoughts?
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>> --
>> Anish
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> Anish
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Anish
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