fdroidcl

F-Droid desktop client.

This is not a replacement for the Android client. While the Android client integrates with the system with regular update checks and notifications, this is a command line client that talks to connected devices via ADB.

For simplicity, it tries to follow the apt-get/apt-cache commands where it makes sense such as update, show, install and remove.

Current features

• Single repo support
• Update the index
• List all apps
• Search by keywords
• Show details of an app

Missing features

• Proper index update checking via ETag
• Multi-repo support
• Interaction with a device via ADB:
  • Probably relying on the installed command adb
  • Fetch device details (Android version, architecture, ...)
  • Fetch installed applications
  • Should use a sync command if always fetching the data above is slow
  • Install, update and remove applications
• Interaction with multiple devices at once via ADB:
  • Transfer apps and their data from one device to another
• Apk caching

Advantages over the Android client

• Faster to use command line interface
• Ability to batch install/update/remove without root nor system privileges
• Handle multiple Android devices

Android client features this will never have

• "Update available" notifications
• Run on Android with a user interface
• Swap apps over WiFi or Bluetooth and local repos