The notification that shows the download/parse progress of the index update
is now controled by the "Show available updates" preference. That means it
will not be shown at all in the notifications bar if that preference is
disabled. There will still be the header inside of F-Droid. Ideally, the
Updating process would be shown in the Updates tab.
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 should make them less scary to people who do not want to see them at
all. It also means that there can be quite a few expert preferences without
making the list super long for most users.
This labels all network, HTTP, and SSL related errors as CONNECTION_FAILED
so that the mirror selection logic will try the connection again with a new
mirror.
This removes a layer of redundancy where there were defaults set in the
Preferences class, as well as in preferences.xml. This makes it possible
for whitelabel versions to change the default values of the preferences by
changing it only in preferences.xml.
"full" is the original F-Droid app with all the features. It should still
build the exact same app after this change. "basic" is the smallest
version of F-Droid possible. It does not yet build, nor work.
Before, push requests were only supported when using index.xml. This adds
support for using push requests in index-v1.json. `fdroid update` has been
generating them in both index versions for a while now.
These calls to bouncycastle were just used because the library was
there. Now with the upcoming 'basic' build flavor, there will be no
need for bouncycastle. It is required for ZipSigner signing of swap
indexes, and TLS support in the swap NanoHTTPD webserver.
With gradle build flavors, it is possible to specify things like
'myflavorImplementation' but only if the 'dependencies' section is after
the 'android' section where the build flavors are declared. How 1982 of
them to make where things are declared in the file have meaning.
With more whitelabeling support, we need this workaround to avoid
trying to call a null instance when the whitelabeled version does not
include all of the possible preferences.
Stripping the `+` form the license link will direct to the wrong spdx
page. (This would also need changing anyway because of spdx v4.0.0)
closesfdroid/fdroidclient#1472
Hans-Christoph Steiner