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# F-Droid submission notes
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## Anti-features: Play Services dependency
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The app includes `com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:21.3.0` for better location accuracy via `FusedLocationProviderClient`. However, this is **not a hard dependency**:
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- The app checks for Play Services at runtime via `GoogleApiAvailability`
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- If unavailable, it falls back to `LocationManager` (standard AOSP API)
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- All core functionality (finding shelters, compass navigation, offline maps) works without Play Services
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This was specifically designed to support degoogled devices (LineageOS, GrapheneOS, /e/OS).
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### F-Droid build options
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**Option A: Accept as-is with `NonFreeDep` anti-feature**
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The app works fully without Play Services. Mark with `NonFreeDep` anti-feature.
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**Option B: Build flavor without Play Services (recommended)**
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Create a `fdroid` product flavor that excludes the Play Services dependency entirely. The fallback code paths already handle the absence — only the dependency and the Fused provider code need to be conditionally included.
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## Metadata structure
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```
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fastlane/metadata/android/
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├── en-US/ # English (default)
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├── nb-NO/ # Norwegian Bokmål
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└── nn-NO/ # Norwegian Nynorsk
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```
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Each locale contains `title.txt`, `short_description.txt`, `full_description.txt`, and `changelogs/` with per-versionCode files.
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## Screenshots
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Screenshots still need to be added to `images/` directories:
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- `phoneScreenshots/` — at least 3 phone screenshots
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- `featureGraphic.png` — 1024x500 feature graphic
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## Build instructions
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Standard Gradle build, no custom steps needed:
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```
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./gradlew assembleRelease
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```
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