F-Droid Compatibility

[meypod]

Hi

Since Maplibre is using https://dl.bintray.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native maven repo, f-droid builds are failing. I think the library should be hosted on a well-known maven repo.

related: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/15592

thank you for your hard work

[tyrauber]

I don't even see the Android documentation adding this line?! A search for bintray.com comes up empty. I wonder if this is a legacy requirement of older versions of the SDK. Perhaps the newer SDK doesn't require it and just removing this line will work?

[meypod]

hi
it's because it's here, in maplibre-react-native:

maplibre-react-native/android/rctmln/build.gradle

Line 56 in 9fcf6d1

url = "https://dl.bintray.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native"

[meypod]

@tyrauber I seem to be able to build it locally with the maven block removed, and the build works, so I guess it's a legacy requirement of maplibre-react-native ?

sorry about the mention.

[tyrauber]

No worries! The native SDKs have been updated significantly since the 9.0 SDKs. My guess it is probably can be removed, I just haven't got to testing it myself.

[birkskyum]

The latest MapLibre Native is compatible F-Droid since Android SDK v10:

• Separate build flavor to avoid any references to non-FLOSS software maplibre-native#379 (comment)

[meypod]

As far as i remember you just need to remove the maven block mentioned and it's good to go

[KiwiKilian]

F-Droid should be usable with the latest v10 prereleases. Can anyone confirm this? How could I check this myself?

Also, which part would be flagged by F-Droid for using Google? Could we use a variable in the build.gradle to optionally add the implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:21.3.0" line? Or would also the sheer existence of the implementation, which would be conditionally choosen be a problem?

Basically, I would like to have this patch in the package, toggled by a variable or something, allowing this functionality to be toggle by an Expo plugin variable.