Beta builds? Release channel

vaibhavmalaviya1233 · December 4, 2024, 9:04pm

Hello this is specifically request for dev for beta builds channel. I am recently started using Obtainium which is really good at tracking updates through the github and f-droid and interestingly through the direct weburl of apk. so what i want is web url specifically that is made for kustom beta apps such as where kwgt release has
following “https://kustom.rocks/download/KWGT/791” but beta release has something like following “Search results for 'download/KWGT/beta/latest' - Kustom Forum” thus it eliminates the need of going to kustom docs website to check the beta build url for each app if new update is released it would then be renamed to the beta version number much like how releases are stored example :- “Search results for 'download/KWGT/beta/785' - Kustom Forum” but the most recent beta build apk have place at “Search results for 'download/KWGT/beta/latest' - Kustom Forum” this little change i don’t know but probably will make easier for potential beta testers as well as dev to not go through the hassle of waiting for google to review and approve beta builds and will reach the beta testers quickly.
Note :- I have tried downloading using following url(latest) which downloads latest release apk but there is no url for beta version so that’s why I created post asking for this please let me know if there is static url for the beta apk.
Thank you for reading. @frank @Ace

frank · December 5, 2024, 8:58am

The APK download page needs to be rewritten since i use as a backend (Microsoft App Center) which is going to be deprecated early next year. I will make the APKs available through cloud storage but from a website point of view not much should change.

Re your specific point i have subscribed to an issue on Obtainium repo were another user was asking about making a machine readable format part of the supported plugins:

github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

Standard app release metadata format

opened 10:15PM - 25 Nov 24 UTC

evant

enhancement blocked source-specific

**Describe the feature** Hi! I've started my own project to make it easier self…-distribute apps https://github.com/evant/self-update and I feel like it has a lot of overlap with the goals of this project. In particular, I'm working on defining a release manifest json format that provides the information needed to install updates including apk splits. So my questions are: 1. Would it be useful to consume this manifest as well, possibly as an additional source? 2. What information would be most useful to include in the manifest? **Describe alternatives you've considered (if applicable)** - It may be possible to use existing sources in some cases, for example publishing to github releases. I'd imagine other cases, like publishing to an s3 bucket would be more difficult. - It also may be possible to use the HTML source that's configured to read the needed information out of the json file if that's possible. (I haven't tested if pointing an HTML source to a json file actually works). This would be more work for the consumer to set up. **Additional context** Here's a link to the current documentation for the manifest format, though it's very much a work in progress. https://github.com/evant/self-update?tab=readme-ov-file#manifest-format

Once they add this capability i can then generate the proper format so it can be easily parsed by it.

vaibhavmalaviya1233 · December 5, 2024, 9:40pm

Awesome Can’t wait for obtainium dev to implement it. thanks, you are awesome dev.

system · December 30, 2024, 9:40pm

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