I want to install native alpha plus but cannot purchase it as I don’t have Google play services, and cannot build it from source as I don’t have access to a computer. If this is not possible, could somebody please help me out and PM me a link to a compiled APK.

  • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
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    9 months ago

    Have you considered emailing/PMing the developer? Especially with a donation?

    Running APKs from random people is not the best policy.

  • stifle867@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    Another option would be to build in on a VPS, especially because a lot of them will give free credits and bill by the hour

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    9 months ago

    Using Termux (from F-Droid, the Play Store version is nerfed) you can get a lot of tooli g running. Last time I experimented with it, it ran Python, Rust, and Java, al I’m pretty sure it could also run whatever compiler you need to build the APK.

    There are also tools that’ll let you run an entire Linux distro on your phone through chroot tricks.

    Neither is very user friendly, and you’ll need to know what you’re doing. Getting the APK is probably as simple as a series of four or five lines of command line instructions, but finding the right commands can be very tricky. Without knowing what technology the app you’re referring to is using (plain Java? Xamarin? Qt? Does it need the NDK?) it’s hard to say how you would build the APK file.