Changed: Update information regarding Google Play in README #4015
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Thanks, @agnostic-apollo is busy, so @Grimler91 asked me to take a look at this. I will read through it and get back to you tomorrow. |
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| Currently, Google Play will try to update installations away from F-Droid ones. Updating will still fail as [sharedUserId](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/manifest-element#uid) has been removed. This will be fixed in a `0.118.1` version update on F-Droid shortly, which will update the version code so that Google Play does not considers its version of the app newer. Meanwhile, to prevent PlayStore from attempting to download and then fail to install the Google Play releases over existing installations, you can open the Termux apps pages on Google Play and then click on the 3 dots options button in the top right and then disable the Enable auto update toggle. However, the Termux apps updates will still show in the PlayStore app updates list. |
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This will be fixed in a 0.118.1 version update on F-Droid shortly, which will update the version code so that Google Play does not considers its version of the app newer
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A planned 0.118.1 F-Droid release will fix this by setting a higher version code than used for the PlayStore app
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This paragraph will be helpful to users that see the update in PlayStore and are confused, thanks
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| If you want to help out with testing the Google Play build (or cannot install Termux from other sources), be aware that it's built from a separate repository (https://github.com/termux-play-store/) - be sure to report issues [there](https://github.com/termux-play-store/termux-issues/issues/new/choose), as any issues might very well be specific to that repository and not relevant for the main Termux ones. |
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I think these two last paragraphs can be shortened, playstore specific info should go in the playstore repo. The play-store app repo is built from a quite different code base, and is for most purposes a fork of github.com/termux/termux-app at this point. As an alternative I propose:
A Termux app built from different sources is available from Google Play for Android 11+ devices. It is under development and has missing functionality and bugs compared to F-Droid and GitHub releases (see #4000). Issues with PlayStore app are off-topic here and should be reported in a separate organisation.
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| **Termux and its plugins are no longer updated on [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux) due to [android 10 issues](https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-Android-10) and have been deprecated.** The last version released for Android `>= 7` was `v0.101`. **It is highly recommended to not install Termux apps from Play Store any more.** | ||
| Most users should use the F-Droid or GitHub installation source as described above. |
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Since I shortened info below I suggest here instead:
Most users should use the F-Droid or GitHub installation source as described above, to get a stable experience and access to all packages.
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It is not a branch in this repo, as an alternative I propose External fork by @fornwall
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Yes, but that's mainly not to clutter this repo's issues with the PS-specific questions, I'd imagine. The app is just a branch off our older app code that @fornwall plans to integrate back eventually.
I'll let you two hash out this title.
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I went ahead and merged this as it's causing so much confusion & frustration - let me know about any follow up and I'll look into it! I did not include a link to #4000 as that's not really helping things - it's outdated regarding what's included (e.g. storage permissions) and is incorrectly stating things about starting from an old version. Unless that's fixed and continuously updated it's not a good source to refer to. Regarding branding attempts trying to paint Termux on Google Play as a fork/unofficial build of Termux: That's not going to work and is not helpful. Termux on Google Play was the original source of Termux, has millions of active installs and is useful to a huge amount of people around the world who can't install from non-Google Play sources. While I'll certainly agree that it's painful with the divergence between the Google Play build and this repository, we need to learn to make the best out of it, work together and behave well towards each other while things are being sorted out (and try to finally get out of the situation where this repository has been blocked from contributions for soon two years, due to the huge amount of local changes that hasn't been pushed). |
The current information is generating a lot of confusion, hopefully this updated one feels ok?