Scrcpy: flatpak package

[nexustar]

Hi，I have packaged scrcpy with flatpak.You can find it in https://github.com/12wk34/scrcpy-flatpak
Could you add it to flathub.org cause they require the developer to do it.
The more information about app submission: https://github.com/flathub/flathub/wiki/App-Submission

[Calinou]

Bump :slightly_smiling_face: Could you take a look at it, please?

[rom1v]

@12wk34 Sorry for the delay.

Thank you for your work. :+1:

Could you add it to flathub.org cause they require the developer to do it.

I am happy if scrcpy is packaged for many systems, but I have no time to work/maintain them.

It seems it is not a strong requirement for the author to be involved.

If you are interested, you could maintain the flatpack package like @sisco311 does for the snap package.

However, you should not include binaries/zip of sources, but reference the links from github (and the matching sha256) from the json, so that everyone can be sure that the "flatpack recipe" builds the expected sources.

A minor remark: why do you need x264 (the encoder) and other stuff for ffmpeg? I guess --enable-decoder=h264should be sufficient.

[aiamuzz]

Hi，I have packaged scrcpy with flatpak.You can find it in https://github.com/12wk34/scrcpy-flatpak
Could you add it to flathub.org cause they require the developer to do it.
The more information about app submission: https://github.com/flathub/flathub/wiki/App-Submission

@12wk34 ... could you create a new PR on flathub repo ... just quote this thread there to show you have the approval of upstream(@rom1v ) ... i believe they would add it to flathub once they see that upstream is ok with it ...

[rugk]

Any news here?

An flatpack package is strongly appreciated…

[nexustar]

A problem is that I dont know how to use a custom adb build. the binary from google is not free. It is what need be done before add to flathub

[rugk]

I guess the source code for adb should be in the AOSP project, somewhere... 😄

At least distros build this in their packages, so it has to be FLOSS. (And you may also look there, Debian or Fedora or so, how they build it.)

[rom1v]

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core.git/+/refs/heads/master/adb/

[sisco311]

Building adb from source is a PITA.

But according to the NOTICE.txt file included in the zip from https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools_r28.0.3-linux.zip the binary is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

[maggu2810]

Any news? Can't you bundle the one from the platform-tools zip file if this is using the APL-2?

[uajain]

Building the adb from source would be ideal but for the time-being we can adopt the approach : https://github.com/flathub/org.godotengine.Godot/pull/38

i.e. adb needs to be present on host, and the scrcpy can run it via flatpak-spawn

[uajain]

Also, confirming on flatpak IRC:

<uajain> Is a binary distributable (adb from android-tools in this case) via a flatpak package, provided it's licensed under Apache license 2.0 
<uajain> My reading says is OK to distribute, but am not an expert here.
<barthalion> uajain: unless binary is under different license, it's fine

@sisco311 @maggu2810 Looks like it's OK to bundle it.

[francku]

Any news?
I have snap installed just for scrcp, so flatpak package would be really helpful.

[nexustar]

Sorry for the postpone.I dont think it is a goold idea to compile library like ffmpeg in each app in flathub. So i was beeing waiting.

I just push a request in flathub( https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/1551 ). And the build is sucess.

By the way, is there a plan to give scrcpy an icon?

[rom1v]

By the way, is there a plan to give scrcpy an icon?

There is currently no plan to do that (no designer).

And there is already an awesome icon `

[Maneli-droid]

Hi @rom1v , I installed SCRCPY with Flatpak, however an error happens:
emanuel@emanuel:~$ flatpak run com.Genymobile.Scrcpy
INFO: scrcpy 1.13 https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

• daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037
• daemon started successfully
  /app/share/scrcpy-server.jar: 1 file p...ped. 49.4 MB/s (27694 bytes in 0.001s)
  [server] INFO: Device: Xiaomi Mi A3 (Android 10)
  ERROR: Could not initialize parser
  INFO: Renderer: opengl
  INFO: OpenGL version: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 20.0.5
  INFO: Trilinear filtering enabled
  INFO: Initial texture: 720x1560
  WARN: Device disconnected
  Can you help me?

[rom1v]

ERROR: Could not initialize parser

Something is very wrong.

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/blob/e99b896ae2b6a59d5f7f2b76a3dd9c29f4838013/app/src/stream.c#L217-L219

Does it work with a non-flatpak version?

[Maneli-droid]

ERRO: Não foi possível inicializar o analisador

Algo está muito errado.

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/blob/e99b896ae2b6a59d5f7f2b76a3dd9c29f4838013/app/src/stream.c#L217-L219

Funciona com uma versão não flatpak?

I tried on Win 7 with the same phone, same USB cable and it worked, but when I try endless End (which only accepts Flatpak) it doesn't work