| commit | e4de1f1e1b8e26010b417100fb3da0b4e5595cb0 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@guardianproject.info> | Tue Aug 09 10:04:30 2016 +0000 |
| committer | Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@guardianproject.info> | Tue Aug 09 10:04:30 2016 +0000 |
| tree | 32b97db0db181b4498e4fb2b2ce37900dfac3297 | |
| parent | f3ad9ee8f2b1f61e331188208c056f79b000df3c [diff] | |
| parent | d5cefa087ca50602c5ee21851f931fdf60ce4a22 [diff] |
Merge branch 'add-ci' into 'master' Add CI This adds a basic CI build with building and lint checks. See merge request !4
When F-Droid is installed as a normal Android app, installing, updating, and removing apps can only be done by requesting the Android operating system to do this. F-Droid cannot execute this operations on itself. Thus, the operating system shows a screen on every install/update to get confirmation from the user that he/she really wants to install this app. This is a security feature of Android to prevent the installation of malware without user intervention.
The downside for F-Droid is that this prevents us from updating apps in the background, which is an essential feature of a modern package manager.
Here comes the F-Droid Privileged Extension into play. To have the same privileges as other pre-installed package managers, such as Google Play, i.e., installing/updating apps in the background, F-Droid needs so called "privileged permissions". To get these we provide an extension to F-Droid which must be either shipped with your Android distribution/rom or installed into the system.
More information be found in the wiki page.
./gradlew assembleRelease
You can download the extension from our repo.