FR: Release Android APKs on Github

[pjv]

What are you trying to do?

I’d like to be able to install arbitrary versions of tailscale on Android without any intervening “App Store”. I use obtanium to manage installs of many open source projects on my Android devices and prefer that to alternatives like F-Droid. I will not install anything from the Google Play Store.

Is there any objection to supplying tailscale-built APK’s on the tailscale-android repo?

How should we solve this?

Set up the necessary github actions to build and deploy tailscale releases on the tailscale-android repo.

What is the impact of not solving this?

Currently have to get tailscale from F-Droid where I am limited to whatever version they happen to be hosting. No betas. No older stuff. I also have to trust F-Droid.

Anything else?

No response

[bradfitz]

Work is underway on this.

We avoided it in the past because we didn't want to manage the signing keys and manage APKs per-device and sign them all so we always used Google Play Store's signing service. But that meant we actually didn't have the signed APKs ourselves (or all 82 of them).

But @barnstar is working on this.

[pjv]