Publish app to F-droid

[haroldadmin]

• Replace Firebase Crashlytics in that module with ACRA
• Evaluate and setup the Acrarium backend to receive crash reports
• Publish the completed module to F-droid

[haroldadmin]

A few problems to consider with this issue:

• Firebase Crashlytics is great. The crash reports are exhaustive, and even though the analytics are simple, they are still valuable.
• There is no compelling free service to host a backend server for ACRA. Using email for crash reporting is alternative, but it really does not seem like a good idea.
• To create an F-droid specific module, the dynamic feature modules will have to conditionally depend on one of the base app modules: the one published to the play store, and the one published to f-droid. I can maybe accomplish this using product flavours, but I am not sure how I would do it.

If someone else wants to help out with this issue, you're welcome to. Adding the help wanted label.

[subbramanil]

Hey @haroldadmin, I have prior experience with ACRA in one of my work products. We used a combination of firebase along with ACRA. I'm a bit hazy on the details of the backend server. I can help setting up a rudimentary solution, can't promise a lot as it's been a while. That is if this is still relevant.

I haven't published any apps to F-droid; it would be a learning curve.

[haroldadmin]

@subbramanil Thank you for your interest in this issue. I think it would be better to split the ACRA task from this issue, since publishing to F-Droid and changing the crash reporting service are two separate tasks.

We can first focus on moving to ACRA, and look at publishing to F-Droid after that.

[haroldadmin]

Here's the ACRA issue: #32
Let's continue the discussion there.

[subbramanil]

@subbramanil Thank you for your interest in this issue. I think it would be better to split the ACRA task from this issue, since publishing to F-Droid and changing the crash reporting service are two separate tasks.

We can first focus on moving to ACRA, and look at publishing to F-Droid after that.

It makes more sense. 👍