[gowld]

What's the status of trustworthy reproducible build systems for deploying open source code to apps on Android?

[kevincox]

https://f-droid.org/docs/Reproducible_Builds/

I think Signal also does this for their Android app. I'm not sure of much else in this space.

[1oooqooq]

well, zero. just like apple. since there's no convenient way for the user the validate anything they are installing other than "the app store said so"

[sodality2]

This is a response to a question of Google Play’s reproducibility which is moot because of the distribution mechanism. *Android* in general does have reproducibility especially from third party repos like F-droid.

[1oooqooq]

correct.

sadly fdroid usage is close to zero. and even there verification requires adb hacks and very expert users, even for basic hash checking.