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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Apps (apks) must be signed before uploading to distribution sites like play store or f-droid. Some devs are signing their app releases with different keys, because for example the google play version of the app has to contain stuff they don’t include in f-droid versions. These are mostly privacy related things, google does not allow in their play store. In case of bitwarden the two versions are most probably the same and they’re signed with the same key. So if there’s an update in either of the two distribution sites it will show you, that there’s an update. Now I use Aurora Store instead of play store for apps that are not available in F-Droid and you can blacklist apps there, so I only get updates from F-Droid.



  • It’s exactly what you said: improving an existing app. For certain reasons, the original Bromite branding can’t be used and since the original project’s developer is basically left the project, this was the only way: forking and rebranding. The owner of this fork project was one of the main, most active contributors to Bromite anyway, so it should be fine. I wonder, though if there’s going to be a Cromite WebView as well, because I still use the Bromite WebView… Does anybody know?





  • I already did a small modification on our street we live in, because it was not a one-way street anymore. But we also have a vacation home on a vineyard where the road does not even exist and I figured if I can log gps coordinations while going up to the gate then maybe I can use those coordinates to import them as a way in OpenStreetMap to be precise. Or, since it exists on google maps, maybe getting coordination data from there and use that to create the way. Is something like this possible?


  • No clue, the dev said in one of the issues on github that “nobody stopped developing the project” or something similar, yet there’s no sign of the project being maintained. Luckily one of the core contributor of the project has a fork, which is actively maintained, so you can use that: https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools It does not have the bromite branding, but it contains all the bells and whistles. Eventually it is going to have its own branding and probably will be called Cromite if I remember correctly.