APK delivery

[Kopromaster]

Could you please deliver APK at GitHub or F-droid.org? I don't use Google Play Store and application is unfortunately not mirrored at apkpure.com, apkmirror.com nor similar servers. Thank you.

[surpscare]

+1, can't get it from Google Play, says "incompatible with your device" and GTMobile isn't present in general search results at all. I am using Samsung Galaxy Note 8, and it should handle it okay (Android 9, minimum Android 7 is required)

[2bt]

Uh, I recently added MIDI support (3ba4f77) and had to bump minSdk to 29 to get access to amidi, I think that's Android 10. Sorry about that!

Maybe I can try to use an older MIDI API that doesn't require Android 10.

[2bt]

@surpscare I changed the Midi code and lowered midSdk back to 24, so it works on Android 7 again.

[Kopromaster]

Could you please check application behaviour when sideloaded into offline device? I was able to get the .apk, it was successfully installed, but it doesn't run.

After shortly shown splash screen application redirects to Google Play which of course fails in my phone since any Google product is deactivated and has blocked internet access due to privacy reasons.

Could you please check why the player tries to switch to Google Play during startup and can't run without it? For a music app I don't expect any Google or online service is required.

[surpscare]

@surpscare I changed the Midi code and lowered midSdk back to 24, so it works on Android 7 again.

Huge thanks, it works!! Will post a cover at YT soon, this app has no competitors besides SidTracker64 which is Apple-exclusive, and needs wider recognition among C64 fans!

[2bt]

@Kopromaster Not sure why it behaves that way. It your complaint still valid? I guess you are not interested in building the app yourself, right?

[Kopromaster]

@2bt: Thank you for the response.

Issue is not related to building from sources, just to problem with running the Goat Tracker:

• App downloaded to local drive using apkpure.com (version 1.0.11)
• Mentioned required Android is 7.0
• App installed without error on Android 9.0
• No app privileges changed (actually, setup has empty permissions list, so nothing to be restricted)
• App launched
• Splash screen (black screen "GTMobile" logo + goat icon) displayed for less than 1 sec
• Then Google Play is activated instead
• Because Google is blocked on my phone due to privacy reasons, this is the end, Goat Tracker just falls into Google Play instead of running correctly.

-> Could you please check why Google Play is triggered during startup of the Goat Tracker? Composing and playing music is typical offline activity which mustn't be bound to any online service.
If you need to debug it, you could build the app with logging every activity so that we can analyse in which step Google Play is activated. Last visible successfully performed action is displaying title screen, but of course the application could do thousands of activities in background.