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Eskuero
in reply to Accrescent • • •About your stance of third party repos.
Even if this would not be allowed for end users, documentation on how to change the default hardcoded repository to our own before recompiling accrescent and how to generate the metadata for a selfhosted repo would be important imho
Accrescent
in reply to Eskuero • • •@eskuero We appreciate you mentioning this. Unfortunately, we don't currently have the capacity to develop and maintain official documentation for how to run Accrescent independently. It would also be very difficult for a third party to keep up with running Accrescent right now since the backend is constantly changing and often requires manual intervention to update which requires special knowledge of how Accrescent works.
We may consider supporting documentation once Accrescent is more stable.
Light
in reply to Eskuero • • •Why can't Accrescent have a feature to restrict third-party repo app installs via a corporate management thingy?
After all, you'd probably want to allow orgs to restrict the installation of certain app that are in the main Accrescent repo, right? Or am I misunderstanding how corporate security features work?
@eskuero
Accrescent
in reply to Light • • •@light @eskuero It would be complex to allow adding pinned certificates since that wouldn't be using the standard Android network security configuration. But the TLS certificate pinning concern is currently obsolete since Accrescent doesn't have TLS certificate pinning since version 0.19.0.
Accrescent could have a management feature like that. However, that doesn't resolve some of the other issues with third-party repositories not listed on the website. For example, unattended updates aren't guaranteed if the store doesn't enforce a sufficiently high minimum target SDK. It's also not Accrescent's goal to be a generic app installer for any source, but instead an independent app store.
That section of the website is outdated and should be updated to reflect the above.