Howto: Install Hoarder Android App without Google Play

[tlaerm]

OK, so if you for some reason absolutely, positively cannot bring yourself to use Google Play, you can also invest some time and install the app manually.

1. Go to the Actions tab here in Github and click on the Android App Release Build.
2. Click on the latest successful run and download the asset hoarder-android at the bottom to download it.
3. Unzip it to extract the .aab file.
4. Use bundletool to extract the apks package: bundletool build-apks --bundle=./app-release.aab --output=./hoarder.apks --mode=universal
5. Unzip the generated hoarder.apks to extract the universal.apk. Nearly there. This is still unsigned and cannot be installed just from the file.
6. Grab the android platform keys from here. You need the platform.pk8 and the platform.x509.pem.
7. Sign the apk with apksigner sign --key platform.pk8 --cert platform.x509.pem ./hoarder/universal.apk
8. Transfer the universal.apk to your Phone and install.

On Arch Linux, both bundletool and apksigner could be installed from the AUR. You may need to download them somewhere else for your distro.

[dlsolo]

@tlaerm You are a gentlemen and a scholar! Thank you!