Post by @fdroidorg@floss.social

F-Droid

@fdroidorg@floss.social 3 hr. ago

RE: https://venera.social/display/85a863ed-156a-9f56-5acd-840629392151

"Google Play 'Automatic Protection'" ? In #FDroid we already have that at home... we build from source.

So we don't need to inject anything into our packages that make apps crash. 🤷

The Prāv Cooperative

@prav@venera.social 2 days ago

We have submitted a new release of Prav to the Play Store (pending approval from Google), which should fix the crash-on-launch issue.

The issue was introduced during Google Play Store's processing of our AAB - which explains why it was not caught in our tests, and why the F-Droid release was not affected.

#fdroid

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VishnuSanal

@VishnuSanal@fosstodon.org 49 min. ago

@fdroidorg discovering it was the real hassle TBH 🙂 made me go like this literally 🫠

https://codeberg.org/prav/prav/issues/75 here's the whole story/investigation though if anyone's interested! :)

Codeberg.org

Prav app does not open after latest update on Google Play

@ravidwivedi and I have been receiving reports of the Prav app not opening on Android after a recent update. I have not been able to test it personally as I use Mobian and KaiOS, not Android, but most people describe the situation as "the app refuses to open". More information from those who u...

el_haych2024

@el_haych2024@mastodon.social 57 min. ago

@fdroidorg ah. I think this explains some stuff about why i can't use certain apps.

IzzyOnDroid ✅

@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social 2 hr. ago

"the TLDR solution for us was to disable the automatic play protection on google play" – that protects us from… what, exactly? From using apps distributed there? Uh-Oh…

Neither @fdroidorg nor @IzzyOnDroidOrg add "stuff" to the devs' APK files. We protect you by other means – by scanning for "bad stuff" (and blocking the distribution if there's any such), supporting Reproducible Builds, and more. But injecting code, is how malware behaves. No such thing at F-Droid or IzzyOnDroid. Full stop.