How to use shared library in f-droid

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I try to push react native app to f-droid. When i create merge request New app: free.vpn.unblock.proxy.opensource (!12918) · Merge requests · F-Droid / Data · GitLab, i got answer that jniLibs should be removed from skanignore. After that I got an error that shared libraries are being used.

2023-04-19 16:35:12,605 ERROR: Found shared library at android/app/src/main/jniLibs/arm64-v8a/libovpnexec.so

4692023-04-19 16:35:12,606 ERROR: Found shared library at android/app/src/main/jniLibs/arm64-v8a/libosslspeedtest.so

4702023-04-19 16:35:12,606 ERROR: Found shared library at android/app/src/main/jniLibs/arm64-v8a/librsapss.so

4712023-04-19 16:35:12,607 ERROR: Found shared library at android/app/src/main/jniLibs/arm64-v8a/libjbcrypto.so

4722023-04-19 16:35:12,607 ERROR: Found shared library at android/app/src/main/jniLibs/arm64-v8a/libopenvpn.so

4732023-04-19 16:35:12,608 ERROR: Found shared library at android/app/src/main/jniLibs/arm64-v8a/libovpn3.so

4742023-04-19 16:35:12,608 ERROR: Found shared library at android/app/src/main/jniLibs/arm64-v8a/libovpnutil.so

As I understand it, shared libraries should not be in the source code, they should be compiled during the building of the application. But I don’t know how to do it. Any help, thanks.

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That’s up to you, where’s the free or open-source repo that contains the code for those shared libs? Links?

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I don’t have the source code, but I can take it from similar projects:
1). https://github.com/pia-foss/android-tunnel/tree/master/cpp
2). https://github.com/ivpn/android-app/tree/develop/core/src/main/cpp
The cpp directory contains the sources of the shared libraries

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Great, so in the recipe you need to follow the same build steps as those projects to build the .so files

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Mine is completely missing including the f-droid apps on categories it’s saying that it was possibly corrupt but I think it’s because I foolishly went to Mint mobile and my phone is not accepting short codes or hardly any notifications! I have to wait for 5 days for a Sim to go back to my original carrier!

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That doesn’t seem related to this forum topic. I don’t quite understand your problem (I’ve never heard of any message talking about possible corruption, for future reference: it is really helpful to give the exact error message and/or screenshots if something isn’t working) but maybe try deleting F-Droid’s app data in Android settings to reset it to the original state?

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Sorry I know I combine to much in my head, your right the messages are not part of the f-droid, I wanted to look for a different app but it’s all missing but as I read down I’m not the only one that can’t see the categories that used to be on the f-droid app! Sorry for the confusion

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I think you might have ran into [Important] F-Droid broken after Android version upgrade. The easiest way to fix this is deleting F-Droid app data or, if you can’t find that in your phone somehow, reinstalling the F-Droid app. After that things should work again.

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