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Following up to this post https://lemmy.ml/post/31598540

A number of people asked for F-Droid support when I posted about my Lemmy client, and it’s here!

Get Blorp on F-Droid

I didn’t notice the scope of some of the app permissions until now, but half of those are unnecessary. I’ll be reducing the scope in the next release to avoid any confusion.

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[–] schizoidman@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I been keeping it updated via obtainium. It's faster to get updates that way.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. F-Droid has some considerable lag in deploying new versions. I’m new to F-Droid but a 3-6 day delay in publishing new versions seems typical.

[–] cole@lemdro.id 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

F-Droid's big "thing" is reproducible builds. You could theoretically post any artifact to GitHub, so I have to trust that every update the artifact you built matches the source code. F-Droid allows me to know that the artifact matches the source code.

Unless of course you've implemented your own reproducible build system.

The caveat here is it means F-Droid has to build your app, which can take some time (but they're actively working on improving that)

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah. Sorry I should have phrased my comment better. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, but people should understand that the tradeoff of reproducible builds is a slight lag in updates.

[–] cole@lemdro.id 2 points 1 day ago

No worries, I just wanted to explain why it takes time in case somebody didn't know

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I am a TalkBack screen reader user and I'm downloading your app to test it with accessibility services right now.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I haven’t done any testing with a screen reader, but I would love to work with you to make the app more accessible.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I would love to help. It's actually not as bad as it could be from what I can tell. Like sure, there are some issues, but trust me, I've seen way worse.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Blorp is actually a web app in a native app wrapper. I have some experience building accessible websites, but I wasn’t sure that it would translate well in the native app wrapper. But I’m really happy already somewhat accessible!

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

Wow, I certainly couldn't tell that. It feels totally native. Not like a web app at all.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 3 points 4 days ago

Thank you, well done!

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thanks! Apologies for the accessibility issues, but I’ll start working through your list!

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

Hey, not a problem. Most people don't necessarily have to think about the accessibility for screen reader users. That's what I'm here for.