Hello!
I would like to host my own Fdroid repository. I want to add a few apps that I’ve made and built using other tools (namely, MIT Appinventor),
I would like to host this repository on github or gitlab. They’re free, and they offer free static hosting.
How would I go about setting this up?
I can’t host it on the official Fdroid repo because it has a separate build process than if it was an Android Studio app, and I don’t know if you can use the command line to build it easily.
Check out Repomaker. Its looking for a maintainer (has some outdated dependencies), but I’m pretty sure this tool still works as intended. It makes this very easy (point and click).
Thanks! I’m working on setting this up now.
Which files should be made public, and which should I add to the gitignore?
Also check out servergitmirrors in the example config.yml from fdroidserver, there it explains how to publish repos to github/gitlab. It is pretty straightforward
Repomaker solved my problem! Thanks!
Actually, I realized I used fdroidserver, not repomaker 
Check out the docs (more generally at Docs | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository, more specifically for this case at Setup an F-Droid App Repo | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository)
I know this is kind of the “simple” way to do this, but I have a local repo in a VM that I just sync to Github using git whenever I run fdroid update. The repo keys &c. never leave the VM and it’s only online long enough to update the repo.
Then I just set up Github Pages to serve content from the repo.
Setting it up manually works. That is also what the servergitmirrors: config option does for you.
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