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[woodholly]

Make app more popular by adding visible link to github and emphasize it at the top of www.bravedns.com page.
Without this link www.bravedns.com looks like commercial closed-source project.

[woodholly]

2. Add this project to F-Droid (catalogue of open-source android applications)

[ignoramous]

Re F-Droid: the apps uses a bit of Google closed source APIs that F-Droid won't accept, so until we work around that (create a separate build for F-Droid excluding closed source code), this can't happen.

Re: Website: good point. We probably need to redesign the current pages, I've been told by a few others too that it doesn't really inspire trust.

Thanks for your inputs. Appreciate it.

[Ch4t4r]

Regarding F-Droid: #212

[Ch4t4r]

When the necessary changes have been made:

Create an issue here: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/-/issues

• An example for a complex config file: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/metadata/chat.rocket.android.yml#L136 (the highlighted line would be the build type F-Droid would create, 'fdroidRelease' most likely in this case)

[michaelblyons]

If this app becomes available on F-Droid, I would try it out. Currently using DNS66 which does pi-holing, but not DoT/DoH.

[ignoramous]

Only if building for F-Droid wasn't such a pain for polyglot apps, this would already be a reality...a man can dream. Currently, F Droid builds are blocked by:

1. Move outline-go-tun2socks to a git submodule #215
2. A server with crazy amount of RAM, CPU, and disk.

Of course, outside contributions to have F Droid builds is always welcome. Save that, one can build debug builds by cloning the source into Android Studio.

[michaelblyons]

1. Thanks for the Move outline-go-tun2socks to a git submodule #215 link.
2. What's the server for? I thought F-Droid does the builds on their infrastructure.

Only if building for F-Droid wasn't such a pain for polyglot apps, …

Heavy +1 to that.

[ignoramous]

2. What's the server for? I thought F-Droid does the builds on their infrastructure.

Not sure, never tried after glancing at this ominous article: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Submitting_to_F-Droid_Quick_Start_Guide/

[michaelblyons]

That article is indeed ominous, but looking through the referenced CONTRIBUTING.md, I think it's a one-time thing to create the "recipe," after which you can clean up the resources.

Doing it in a VM just makes the cleanup easier. I suppose one might want to keep the VM around to debug build failures in future versions (if you ever have any), but I'm sure you can keep the VM in cold storage.

I haven't verified this myself, but that's my read of the walkthrough.

[howtologinquickwiththirtyninecharacters]

@michaelblyons while you wait for Rethink on F-Droid, if you want pi-holing and DoH, personalDNSfilter can do both (it's on F-Droid).

[ignoramous]

IzzyDroid builds: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/-/issues/1552

[afonari]

@michaelblyons while you wait for Rethink on F-Droid, if you want pi-holing and DoH, personalDNSfilter can do both (it's on F-Droid).

Sorry for the ofttop. I was using personalDNSfilter, it is pretty good and light. However it lacks firewall option (blocking apps from the internet connectivity), this is the main reason I'm trying now rethinkdns.

[ignoramous]

Okay, we don't need to muck with git submodules. Publishing a hard-fork of the outline-go-tun2socks firewall/doh network-engine dubbed firestack to jitpack.io now.

[ignoramous]

Next step, upstream RethinkDNS's build "metadata" to F-Droid (ref).

[ignoramous]

App submitted for review: fdroid/data/merge-requests/8559

[ignoramous]

@woodholly The website has been re-designed (by @amithm7). The resolver website (for-profit but FOSS) is at rethinkdns.com and the app's website (F[L]OSS) is at: rethinkfirewall.com. Let me know what you think.

F-Droid RFP (request for packaging) has been merged yesterday: gitlab/fdroid/fdroiddata/merge-request/8605. It may take up to 5 days to show up on the F-Droid clients, though: gitlab/fdroid/wiki/FAQ#how-long.

[ignoramous]

Many thanks to @Ch4t4r as well. They put wind in the sails of this initiative! 🙏 And @hussainmohd-a who did bulk of remaining work.

[ignoramous]

@michaelblyons this is for you! (:

[ignoramous]

Live on F-Droid.