GitHub AntennaPod Help?

WhatColorIsIt

I have an RSS reader and install my apps manually. I wanted to install AntennaPod to listen to a podcast, bit it is a .zip file instead of an .apk file. I downloaded i, extracted it, but nothing will open and there is no apk or other file that seems to install the app.

Any help?

guser39

WhatColorIsIt

Where did you download it from? Per their website:

Official versions of AntennaPod are available on Google Play and F-Droid
AntennaPod is only officially published in above two app stores because we don’t have the time to support more. All other stores listing AntennaPod copied the app without our explicit permission. We are not responsible for updating those or making sure they work correctly. The F-Droid repository is not maintained by us, but by the people behind F-Droid.

You shouldn't need to mess directly with APKs for either of these sources.

guser39

WhatColorIsIt you mentioned "manual" installation so I wonder if you're referring to the AntennaPod GitHub. I took a quick look and it appears to be purely source code, even for releases. So, if you downloaded a release zip file I am assuming that you'll need to build the app manually, too.

Edit: I have only done one GitHub install and that provided the APK easily. So, it is possible that I am just unfamiliar with where they would be located with the source directory tree...

andrewteg

I just installed AntennaPod and as guser39 said it's just source code on GitHub.

Your two options are download the zip and compile it into an APK in Android studio on a laptop or click on the fDroid link and you should see each version has a Download APK link after its release notes.

Most recent seems to be https://f-droid.org/repo/de.danoeh.antennapod_2070195.apk as of this reply and that matches the latest release on GitHub.

User2288

you cant get antennapod form github. you got to get it either from fdroid or from play/aurora.

trilogy6202

Plenty Apps only have the source code on github while only letting you download the .apk from play store and/or f-droid.

Your only options are to built the app from source or download it from play store / aurora / f-droid.

WhatColorIsIt

Thank you all for helping me understand the problem. I though every "release" on github was for the public to download. I thought the apk was hiding from me somewhere :P

So does this mean AntennaPod is not open source?

Does any one know of a good podcast app that is open source and available on github as an apk? I only use apps signed by the developers and not a third party like f-froid.

Phead

WhatColorIsIt

Well, you downloaded the source code, so it appears to be open source. Some apps have dependencies which are not open source, but it appears the app Antenna pod itself is open source (as in the source code is openly available, as opposed to closed source such as most google apps, MacOS)