F-Droid's binary scanner (the fdroiddata `check apk` job) rejects any
"extra signing block". Our release APK carried AGP's dependency-metadata
block (id 0x504b4453, ~8 KB) in the APK Signing Block. Disable it with
`dependenciesInfo { includeInApk = false; includeInBundle = false }`.
The block lives in the signing block, not the zip entries, so removing it
changes no build output — v2.7.5 is functionally identical to 2.7.4 and
still reproduces byte-for-byte. Verified locally: a releaseTest build now
carries only the v2 signature + verity padding (no 0x504b4453 block).
This was the last F-Droid blocker: v2.7.5 now clears vcsInfo (since 2.7.3),
foojay (since 2.7.4) and the dependency-metadata block. Bumps versionName
to 2.7.5 and retargets the official recipe draft at v2.7.5.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
F-Droid's official build scanner rejects the foojay-resolver-convention
plugin because it can fetch a JDK over the network during the offline,
reproducible build. The plugin was inert here (no toolchain block ever
invoked it), so removing it leaves the app functionally identical to
2.7.3 and still reproducible byte-for-byte from source.
Bumps versionName to 2.7.4 (the release trigger) and retargets the
official fdroiddata recipe draft at v2.7.4, plus two recipe corrections
the fdroiddata CI caught on the v2.7.3 submission (MR !40967):
- Categories: 'Time' (retired in the current taxonomy) -> 'Calendar & Agenda'
- AutoUpdateMode: 'Version v%v' (invalid per schema) -> 'Version'
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Home-screen widgets were stuck on the Glance loading layout (a blank spinner)
in the minified release build — but worked in debug. Root cause: Glance renders
every widget through a WorkManager worker (androidx.glance.session.SessionWorker),
and WorkManager instantiates the InputMerger reflectively from the fully-qualified
class name persisted in the WorkSpec (Class.newInstance, no-arg ctor). Under R8
full mode (AGP 9 default) the unused no-arg constructor of
androidx.work.OverwritingInputMerger was stripped, so WorkManager threw
"OverwritingInputMerger has no zero argument constructor", the SessionWorker
never ran, and provideContent never executed — leaving the widget on its
initial loading layout forever.
Same R8-reflection family as the v2.7.0 Room keep-rule fix. Keep the name +
constructor of every androidx.work.InputMerger.
Verified on-device with the releaseTest build (R8-minified): the agenda widget,
which showed only a spinner before, now renders its content; the WM-InputMerger
InstantiationException is gone. Closes #18. Cuts v2.7.3.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Make fastlane/metadata/android/ the single source of truth for store
listing metadata, consumed directly by the official F-Droid repo and
transformed into the self-hosted repo's localized layout at release time.
- Move fdroid-metadata/<appid>/<locale>/ -> fastlane/metadata/android/<locale>/
(git-tracked renames: summary->short_description, description->full_description,
+ title.txt, images/icon.png, images/phoneScreenshots/); keep the app-level
.yml control file for the self-hosted `fdroid update`.
- Add scripts/fastlane_to_fdroid_localized.sh (fastlane -> F-Droid localized,
incl. changelogs) and scripts/sync_changelog_to_fastlane.sh (CHANGELOG.md ->
fastlane changelog); verified byte-identical to the previous metadata.
- release.yaml: build self-hosted metadata from the fastlane tree and sync the
per-version changelog before the transform (one changelog source for both
channels).
- Disable AGP VCS-info embedding on release builds (vcsInfo { include = false })
so builds reproduce byte-for-byte vs the distributed APK — the only file that
otherwise differed (META-INF/version-control-info.textproto). Effective from
the next release.
- Add docs/fdroid-official/ (draft fdroiddata recipe: reproducible build +
AllowedAPKSigningKeys + Binaries + notes).
- Repoint README screenshots/icon, update docs/README + RELEASING, and skip the
Android build on fastlane-only changes (ci.yaml).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
