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Could it be pushed to F-Droid? At of people using FD as main source of apps would like to try it.

• darklajid 11y ago
  Is that necessary, though? The application is already available in this very article, without involving the Play Store if that's what you're trying it avoid.
  • akerro 11y ago
    Does it autoupdate itself?
    • darklajid 11y ago
      Honestly: I don't know, haven't tried it so far. But Mozilla's Nightly (Aurora?) does on Android, so it should be possible.
    • fabrice_d 11y ago
      Yes it does, from the nightly channel.
• carlos22 11y ago
  I don't think so. Similar to many Linux distributions F-Droid apps should be build from source. There are some issues about the branding (logo, name etc.) which leads to things like Iceweasel (Debian) or Fennec (F-Droid). See: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.mozilla.firefox https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.mozilla.fire...
  • carlos22 11y ago
    And if you wonder why Ubuntu has a real Firefox branding, they have a deal with Mozilla.
  • petecox 11y ago
    Boot To Gecko (B2G) is the underlying open source project. "Firefox OS" is the official Mozilla-branded product. It should not be a problem basing it on B2G.
  • Spittie 11y ago
    Beside this, Firefox is not really welcomed (and a drop is planned eventually) on F-Droid because it's really complex to build, depends on some closed source libraries (Google Play Services, for example) and has lots of tracking in it (everything is at least opt-out as far as I can tell, but the guys behind F-Droid aren't really keen on any kind of tracking it seems). It's possible to build it without those problems (see Fennec on F-Droid in fact), but it takes a lot of time for someone to create a recipe, and it's prone to break on every upgrade (and that's why the last version of Fennec on F-Droid is based on Firefox 40). I don't know if/how many of those problems apply on Firefox OS (I guess at least the complex build environment applies), but that's likely why you'll not find it on F-Droid anytime soon. Unless someone decides to pour lots and lots of energy into this. More info/sources: https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/org.mozilla.firefox https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/org.mozilla.firefox https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/metadata/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid.txt https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/metadata/or...
    • akerro 11y ago
      Yea, I know all of that. >It's possible to build it without those problems (see Fennec on F-Droid in fact) Fennec is stuck on 40 because of difficulties with building it, and even when one person managed to build it, .apk didn't start on others developers phone. A few people tried upgrading it to 41 and all failed, I guess fennec is kill now. I talked about it a few times on their IRC with people responsible for fennec.
• verusfossa 11y ago
  They could set up their own fdroid repo anyone could add to fdroid. Decentralization over an open protocol is a good thing. Guardian Project hosts their own and it's bundled, but there are a few private repos in the wild you can add today. It's similar to Ubuntu's third party sources or ppas. If big open companies started supporting it, maybe it would gain some steam. This would sidestep some of fdroid's official repo's more stringent requirements. https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Setup_an_FDroid_App_Repo https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Setup_an_FDroid_App_Repo