[Feature request] Add the app to the F-Droid repo about hexpress HOT 2 OPEN

Thanks for opening this issue. I would definitely be interested in F-Droid listing in spirit of open source.

I don't have experience with F-Droid, but when I looked into this some years ago it seemed too complicated to set up everything so that they can produce their own build from source. With the state of Android NDK I was barely able to make a local build through the ever-changing Android Studio. In the mean time the Love2D framework improved the Android building process, so this could be easier to accomplish now.

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Having read through the F-Droid integration process I see no bigger issues, just a moderate amount of effort to make it happen. The app ticks all F-Droid perquisites for inclusion.

The Hexpress repository currently only has Lua files and sound samples. The missing part is the love-android framework code, on top of which there are some trivial changes in manifest and gradle files (changing app name, icon and permissions). As first step the love-android source should be somehow integrated into Hexpress repository so that anybody can reproduce APK file.

Then all the F-Droid metadata should be developed and tested against local instance of F-Droid server. After it is working, the merge request is sent to F-Droid and they review the whole thing before making the app available on their store.

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