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41 lines
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I am using nix to build android applications to be sure that it is being built safely from the source code to the apk file.
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# Why though? Why not just use google play or even f-droid?
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I love nix and being able to build my packages and even my operating system in a pure and reproducible way is awesome. I want that for my android devices. But i find the state of development in the android worse than python 😭🙏.
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Goals:
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- Collect the list of open source famous android applications and games.
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- Create a derivation that builds those applications (also tests them if possible)
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- Use that derivation to generate the APK.
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- Then collect these APKs in a cache that could be used to serve those applications inside a static website.
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- Check my own packages for reproducibility.
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- Get the list of all our dependencies for builds of all apks
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- Check them for reproducibility
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- Check our all derivations for reproducibility
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- No runtime dependencies (we are just producing a file)
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Applications:
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- lichess
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- signal
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- tailscale
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- wikipedia
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- f-droid
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- mihon
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- mastodon
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- anki
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- bluesky-social/social-app
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- smoking-durtles
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Successful nix apk builds:
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- https://github.com/CrazyChaoz/Minimal-Android-UWB-App
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- https://github.com/iyox-studios/iyox-Wormhole
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- https://github.com/expenses/irohdroid
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Important tools:
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- https://github.com/CrazyChaoz/gradle-dot-nix : This flake can generate the full maven repo required to build a gradle app from gradle/verification-metadata.xml, all in the sandbox, without code generation.
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