I'd like to contribute to the F-Droid GitLab Repo.
I followed this guide: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
I have done this already, many times with a normal native app. That worked great. But with an Ionic app it seems to be different. I see, for example, no gradle data in my Ionic app. Do I need gradle? Because the build failed because he can not run gradle clean ..
Heres my stack:
==== detail begin ==== FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
- What went wrong: Task 'clean' not found in root project.
This is how my metadata file looks like:
Categories:System
License:GPL-3.0
[...]
Repo Type:git
Repo:<Repo Link>
Build:1.0,1
commit=<commit>
gradle=yes
Auto Update Mode:None
Update Check Mode:None
Everything in <> is filled out correctly.
You are forging new ground here! We (F-Droid) don't have solid support for Cordoba/Ionic/etc. but the only thing preventing it is someone doing the work! We're working on adding a new build field sudo= which will let you download and install whatever you need to run your build. I've never used Ionic, Cordoba, or any of these Javascript app things, so I don't know the details.
You can follow the progress of sudo= here:
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/merge_requests/297
It'll still be a while yet before this is deployed on our infrastructure, but your testing it will speed up that process!