It’s compatible if reproducible builds are used: https://fdroid.gitlab.io/jekyll...

mdaniel · 2025-08-26T03:30:33 1756179033

That's interesting, thanks for drawing my attention to it. I would need to go spelunking around to see how they reference an .apk from the Play Store, which I got the impression used crazypants gRPC shenanigans for building download URLs

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I went sniffing around and while I didn't go through all tens of pages, it sure does seem like that's only used for non-Play Store style verification, and thus my assertion seems to stand https://gitlab.com/search?group_id=28397&project_id=36528&se...

notpushkin · 2025-08-26T08:28:52 1756196932

Oh, I got it – apparently Play App Signing is mandatory now: https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/preparing#publi...

This makes it a bit trickier, yeah, though if the developer can get an APK signed with their Play App Signing key, and the app in question is a reproducible build, they can then publish it in F-Droid: https://fdroid.gitlab.io/jekyll-fdroid/docs/Reproducible_Bui...

(and probably they can upload it to their GitHub releases or something so that F-Droid picks it up from there)