Link to mobile app release APK for android without google play

[alexgarel]

What

• We do not currently have a f-droid release (see [Tracker] Update the GitHub release pipeline smooth-app#2771) we should at least point to an APK for android installation without google play.
• Thanks to @M123-dev it's available on https://github.com/openfoodfacts/smooth-app/releases/latest, we should point people there.

To Reproduce

Go to https://world.openfoodfacts.org/open-food-facts-mobile-app the APK archive is not up to date

Expected behavior

We should make it possible to have latest APK:

• either by simply linking to https://github.com/openfoodfacts/smooth-app/releases/latest
• or by having an automatic upload of the file on each release (seems harder)

Part of

• Mobile acquisition

[M123-dev]

To note: The apk in the release is currently with proprietary binaries.
In the next days there should be a second variant with open source module only

[natrius]

The 'old' OFF app finally got updated in F-Droid to 3.9.0 and works now. The APK on the website available on https://world.openfoodfacts.org/open-food-facts-mobile-app and/or https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ on the bottom is still old and is pointing to 3.6.2 with the old app.

[alexgarel]

I proposed a PR to fix the link to APK.

But for F-droid I don't see the release https://f-droid.org/fr/packages/openfoodfacts.github.scrachx.openfood/ (should'nt it be 4.1.0 ?)

[natrius]

Depending on what you want. You have the 'old' app that will still be maintained and developed as far as i understood it. Meaning https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-androidapp

The new official one is the smooth app with https://github.com/openfoodfacts/smooth-app and yes, it is 4.1.0 (and the f-droid build is broken ^^ ). And the new one should get a separate entry in f-droid as far as i understood -> See openfoodfacts/smooth-app#1882

[alexgarel]

@teolemon pushed https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-web/pull/350/files on the website side.

[natrius]

Nice. That link is way better, now its possible to see what version you will download before trying to install it :) Thanks alexgarel!

[teolemon]

• Honestly, I did it, but it adds extra guessing and an extra click (you have to scroll down the release, and then there's 3 APKs vs 1 that used to download directly).
• Also, it's now impossible to measure how many times the APK was downloaded, AFAIK

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