Adding React Native Apps to F-Droid | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
React Native is a popular open-source app development framework that makes it easy to build cross-platform applications using the platform’s native UI components. This makes it an ideal choice for developers building apps for all platforms.
That’s why we chose it when we started working on the new EteSync Notes app. It enabled us to build an app in a very short time reusing 100% of the code on Android, iOS, the web, and once we release the desktop clients, the desktop too.
Being an open-source project ourselves, and long-time (very happy) users of F-Droid, one of our main concerns before building the app was: can react-native applications be built on F-Droid? Looking online we couldn’t find a clear answer. We then looked at the fdroiddata repository we saw some mentions of react-native, which led us to react native apps that are available on F-Droid. So we know it can be done, we were just missing the how.
Before we go on with explaining the important components and how they play together, here is the working EteSync Notes spec file for your reference.
