F-Droid Build Status

Android App to show and monitor the current F-Droid build status. It uses the F-Droid build server API.

Get nightly builds from https://fdroid.storchp.de/fdroid/repo

Features

• Shows successful, failed and missing builds
• Shows if an app needs an update, is disabled, archived, has no apk package or has disabled update check
• Shows published versions and highest metadata version of an app
• Shows build log
• Mark apps as favourite
• Notify about new builds or publishes of your favourite apps

F-Droid API

The App uses the following F-Droid API endpoints:

• running.json: the current running F-Droid buildserver process, https://f-droid.org/repo/status/running.json
• build.json: the last completed F-Droid buildserver build cycle, https://f-droid.org/repo/status/build.json
• update.json: the last update check of the F-Droid buildserver, https://f-droid.org/repo/status/update.json
• build.log: https://f-droid.org/repo/{id}_{versionCode}.log.gz
• published package info: https://f-droid.org/api/v1/packages/{id}, example https://f-droid.org/api/v1/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid

Screenshots

Legend

currently running build cycle ( running.json)

finished build cycle (build.json)

successful build

failed build, incomplete build cycle ( maxBuildTimeReached)

missing build

non-favourite app

favourite app

disabled app

archived app

app has no packages

app has no update check enabled

app needs update / update cycle

Translations

This app is translated at: translate.codeberg.org.

Useful information

• General F-Droid documentation page
• F-Droid update processing
• How exactly does the building process work?
• How long does it take for my app to show up on website and client?
• Buildserver chart

Artwork

• Logo derived from F-Droid: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/artwork
• Icons from: https://github.com/material-components/material-components
• Acryl painting from @mondstern: https://pixelfed.social/p/mondstern/254646998685323264 (many thanks 😍)

Chat

If you would like to get in touch:

Matrix: #fdroid-build-status:matrix.org or via Element.io

Related Projects

• F-Droid Monitor: https://monitor.f-droid.org/builds
• fdroid-build-checker: https://github.com/johnjohndoe/fdroid-build-checker

Test Notification

Run App in Debug mode and execute a JobSchedule via adb:

adb shell cmd jobscheduler run -f  de.storchp.fdroidbuildstatus.debug 1000

To retest favourite notifications, connect to the database via App Inspector und delete the registered notifications and buildRuns:

delete from notifications;
delete from build_runs;