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Comment by aexaey

What you have described is pretty much an opposite of how F-droid works. One can't just take binary (whether official or compromised) and upload it there. [1]

Instead, to publish an app there, you need to provide source code repository [2], and their build farm would build it, sort-of [3] providing guarantee that source code you can inspect is the same one you got running on your phone.

[1] There are exceptions, i.e. apps uploaded as binary-only (for example Firefox), but those come with big red warning that user sees before installing them.

[2] https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/FAQ_-_App_Developers#Will_my_a...

[3] Sort-of because reproducible builds for Android not here yet, so you can't just rebuilt it yourself and compare sha256, unfortunately.

parent aexaey 10 years ago

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