When debugging issues, tracking the client can be quite useful. This makes
an "Expert" preference that adds the app version and a randomly generated,
stored UUID to the query string each time it downloads an index or an app
package.
This is also useful in whitelabeling, for use cases where there needs to be
some kind of identifier to make it work.
This preference is meant for whitelabel builds that are meant to be
entirely controlled by the server, without user interaction, e.g.
"appliances". Some users have asked for such a thing, so it makes sense to
have it available as an expert preference. In general, we want to ensure
that installs/updates always show a notification so that the user is aware
of what is being installed on their computers. That is the same policy as
other app stores like Google Play, etc.
This gives a lot more flexibility to the user to cover bandwidth, power,
and privacy issues related to network traffic. The current implementation
does not represent these prefs as well as it should. For example, it does
not force the traffic over the preferred network type if the other type is
set to "never". Instead it just tracks the "unmetered" status of the
active network, and acts based on that.
closes#1381
This lets people add any URL as a mirror to an existing repo. The UX is
people add URLs via any of the normal ways of adding a new repo via Intents,
like clicking URLs, QRCodes, etc.
As nice as it would be to help the users, F-Droid is not well positioned to
help the user with this problem. The Android OS itself should do it. Plus
this issue has been open a long time, without much work on it, and the
existing solution is causing crashes.
#855!440!581
Utils.getBinaryHash() is used in a lot of places in the code, so its not
easy to handle this specific issue. Here's one example:
org.fdroid.fdroid.Utils$PotentialFilesystemCorruptionException: java.io.IOException: read failed: EIO (I/O error)
at org.fdroid.fdroid.Utils.getBinaryHash(Utils.java:426)
at org.fdroid.fdroid.AppUpdateStatusService.findApkMatchingHash(AppUpdateStatusService.java:159)
at org.fdroid.fdroid.AppUpdateStatusService.processDownloadedApk(AppUpdateStatusService.java:110)
at org.fdroid.fdroid.AppUpdateStatusService.onHandleIntent(AppUpdateStatusService.java:65)
at android.app.IntentService$ServiceHandler.handleMessage(IntentService.java:65)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:60)
This commit allows F-Droid to hide itself from the laucher.
It can be hidden either as response to a panic trigger
or as a manual action by long pressing the floating search button.
The latter needs to be explicitly enabled in the settings.
Once hidden, a semi-functional fake calculator app appears in the
launcher that can be used to bring F-Droid back by entering a
pre-defined PIN.
Items which can be updated (but have not yet been downloaded or queued for download)
will act as if the user selected "Ignore this update" from the app details view.
Items which represent app statuses (e.g. downloading, downloaded ready to install,
installed ready to run) will have the status removed. If required, we will also
forget that they are ready to install, so they wont be there next time.
Untested because there are no apps in current repos which exhibit this
behaviour which have newer versions. Right now I'm testing with com.waze
from testy.at.or.at which only has the one version.
I'm also unsure of how important this is seeing as most the time it will
prompt people to update anyway.
This is in the spirit of the setting, where users can see which apks are
available even though they are not installable.
Adds a message explaining why it is incompatible (i.e. because the
signature doesn't match the installed version).
This is not really a useful way to tell the user that the index might be
out of date. It just adds confusion and makes people think that F-Droid
isn't quite smart enough to know what's going on.
* This installer is invoked when for non-apk/media files, and
copies them to an appropriate folder on the sdcard.
* We also introduce a FileInstallerActivity to ask for storage
permissions at runtime, as needed by Android 6.0 and above,
and handle the install/uninstall process.
* A toast is shown with the install path after installation.
TODO:
* Manage Installed Apps screen doesn't show media files.
Reuses the "commiting" message to indicate how many apps have been
processed so far.
Refactors existing progress handling between `RepoUpdater` and
`UpdateService` to use `LocalBroadcastManager` in preference to
`ProgressListener`. Still needs to use `ProgressListener` to talk
between `RepoUpdater` and the `Downloader` +
`ProgressBufferedInputStream`.
The only change that is related to something more important than
notifications is the fact that now `IndexV1Updater` makes use of the
`indexUrl`. To do so, because it is final, the base class constructor
delegates to `getIndexUrl()` which is overriden by the v1 updater.
This is required because we want to differentiate between broadcasts
coming from different repo update processes.
Fixes#1054.
If the client fails due to some bug in handling index-v1.jar, then it will
be totally stuck, even if index.jar would have worked. This creates a new,
temporary "expert" preference to force the client only use the old XML
index file. Worst comes to worst, we can tell people to enable this to
upgrade.
Once everything proves stable, we can remove this.
This started with the work of @kingu, it cleans up some of the language,
including:
* upgrade --> update
* application --> app
* internet --> Internet
closes!508
Also, make sure to correctly update the app details view when te user
leaves then returns to the view. Prior to this, the user would need to
wait for a download event to be received. However even that was broken,
because the download listener was not being added correctly once the
user returned to the app details screen.
