About ARK Store

ARK-Store ARK-Store is an Android app store for open-source apps published on GitHub. A developer adds one topic to the repository and the app is in the store; new versions follow every release. No account, no submission form, no review queue, no fees. Download the latest APK from the Releases page; every release is also mirrored on SourceForge. Registered with Google.** The package name and signing key are registered in Google's Android Developer Console, so ARK-Store keeps installing as usual under Google's new sideloading rules. Publish your app 1. Make the repository public. 2. Give it an open-source license that GitHub recognises, for example a LICENSE file from GitHub's license picker. 3. Create a release and attach the APK. 4. Add the topic arkstore to the repository (the gear next to *About*). The app appears for every user at the next index run, usually within an hour. To take it out of the store, remove the topic. Private or unlicensed repositories are never listed. Codeberg and GitLab The same four steps work on Codeberg and GitLab with ARK-Store 1.4 and later. Codeberg does not report licenses, so the store reads LICENSE or COPYING in the repository root. The file must hold the full, unchanged text of a common license (GPL, AGPL, LGPL, Apache, MIT, BSD, MPL, ISC, EUPL, Unlicense, CC0), preceded only by a title and copyright lines. After a license that ends in "END…

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