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GustavoASantos/Noti: Quick glance, clear progress (github.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This app track down the download or media playing progress and show progress bar around punch line camera or in notification bar. Pretty handy for people who download content or listen to music a lot.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Only available on Google Play, why bother...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Build the app from source. It take me just half a hour to download android-sdk other tool to build.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yep, I really want to fight android SDK again. Just release it on fdroid like other open source projects.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Or be nicer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That has nothing to do with the topic, you're right, I could've put it more nicely. I'm just tired of "compile it yourself" to people without computers being considered an appropriate answer for a criticism of bad distribution. This app seems wonderfully useful and could have huge popularity, but it's being artificially gatekept by the creator.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

~~It's not being gatekept, they're saying that as an alternative. They said they would release it on F-Droid tomorrow.~~

~~Edit: or... Create an issue on the GitHub repo, idk.~~

Edit2: Never mind

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow, the entitlement of "I don't want to do things myself, do extra work for me instead".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow the entitlement of "I refuse to understand that not everyone has a computer and can do this"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok, sure. I recognize that not everyone has a computer. And sure, an F-droid release would be really helpful for those people, if "build it yourself" was the only way to get the app.

But ... It's not like the app is inaccessible. It's on the play store. You can install it.

My main frustration is the outright demand for the project creator to "Just release it on F-Droid" - Something that requires the creator to get familiar with F-droid and do the extra leg-work to release it there. But ... It's an open source app, created for free by someone who wanted to create it. They owe you nothing. Not even "good distribution".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Cant install it on phones without play store, which is not a small number. The additional issue you're skirting is that he is trying to limit release channels. I can't simply clone his work and set it up on an automated distro channel like I could other open source projects, per his specific requests. So yeah I'm going to be demanding a little more than an app that isnt trying to enforce sharing channels.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That is an entirely unreasonable suggestion from a security perspective.