Showcases how it's possible to provide an F-Droid repo on a static site hosting service like GitHub Pages.
It currently is configured to contain NewPipe-nightly and NewPipe-refactor-nightly.
Open https://litetex.github.io/fdroid-pages for a live demo.
Important
If you want to create your own repo and use this repo as a base, make sure to remove/customize all assets like images, links and names!
You need a few secrets that are used for verifying the repo.
To generate these you have to run the fdroid-repo-generator-Docker image offline.
- Ensure that you have Docker installed
- Checkout the repo and open in your terminal
- Select the directory
fdroid-repo-generatorusingcd fdroid-repo-generator - Build the image offline:
docker build --tag fdroid-repo-generator .(the dot at the end is important) - Launch the container
docker run --rm -it --entrypoint=/bin/bash -v %cd%/temp-repo:/repo -w /repo fdroid-repo-generator- This will create a new directory
temp-repo, if this is already present you may need to clean it - After the container is launched a console should be visible
- This will create a new directory
- Execute
fdroid initto initialize the repo - When this is done exit the container with typing
exit
You now should have a fresh F-Droid repo initialized in temp-repo.
Now we need to get the following secrets and store them in GitHub Action secrets:
| What? | Secret name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
keystore.p12 |
KEYSTORE_BASE64 |
Needs to be converted to base64. Easiest way: cat keystore.p12 | base64 > keystore_b64.txt |
config.yml→repo_keyalias |
REPO_KEYALIAS |
|
config.yml→keystorepass or keypass (identical) |
KEYPASS |
keystorepass and keypass are usually identical |
config.yml→keydname |
KEYDNAME |
Updates are checked for every night using GitHub Actions. If an update is found, the repo is rebuilt.
This example uses mirroring to Codeberg.
The mirrored Codeberg site is available at: https://litetex.codeberg.page/fdroid-pages