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This app track down the download or media playing progress and show progress bar around punch line camera or in notification bar. Pretty handy for people who download content or listen to music a lot.

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[–] squid_slime@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] sag@lemy.lol 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Makes GPL-3.0 software. "Please don't share the apk file online"

[–] lupec@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it'd be one thing if they said it wasn't a priority or they didn't feel like supporting an additional channel but that was just puzzling

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And it's paid. Fucking worthless hack. It's a "free" software that's both paid and you're not allowed to share, why even bother using a GPL like license at that point? Just to get people to work for free on your shitty app?

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Time to fork it...

[–] wagesj45@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

If my understanding of the GPL is correct, you can definitely build it yourself and publish it on fdroid. Can't use the same name or any trademarks noti has, though.

[–] sag@lemy.lol 3 points 2 years ago

Thinking about this. I will open a issue on repo tommorow.

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Only available on Google Play, why bother...

[–] sag@lemy.lol 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Build the app from source. It take me just half a hour to download android-sdk other tool to build.

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yep, I really want to fight android SDK again. Just release it on fdroid like other open source projects.

[–] dog_@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That has nothing to do with the topic, you're right, I could've put it more nicely. I'm just tired of "compile it yourself" to people without computers being considered an appropriate answer for a criticism of bad distribution. This app seems wonderfully useful and could have huge popularity, but it's being artificially gatekept by the creator.

[–] dog_@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

~~It's not being gatekept, they're saying that as an alternative. They said they would release it on F-Droid tomorrow.~~

~~Edit: or... Create an issue on the GitHub repo, idk.~~

Edit2: Never mind

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow, the entitlement of "I don't want to do things myself, do extra work for me instead".

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow the entitlement of "I refuse to understand that not everyone has a computer and can do this"

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ok, sure. I recognize that not everyone has a computer. And sure, an F-droid release would be really helpful for those people, if "build it yourself" was the only way to get the app.

But ... It's not like the app is inaccessible. It's on the play store. You can install it.

My main frustration is the outright demand for the project creator to "Just release it on F-Droid" - Something that requires the creator to get familiar with F-droid and do the extra leg-work to release it there. But ... It's an open source app, created for free by someone who wanted to create it. They owe you nothing. Not even "good distribution".

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Cant install it on phones without play store, which is not a small number. The additional issue you're skirting is that he is trying to limit release channels. I can't simply clone his work and set it up on an automated distro channel like I could other open source projects, per his specific requests. So yeah I'm going to be demanding a little more than an app that isnt trying to enforce sharing channels.

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That is an entirely unreasonable suggestion from a security perspective.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Conceptually this is really cool, but the hole punch is oddly misaligned on my Pixel 6, so I can’t imagine it looking good.