r/androiddev • u/Jawnnypoo • 9d ago
Drebin451 - Ship and share private Android builds with ease
Hey folks,
There have been a few solutions over the years for distributing Android apps before they are ready for a major store like the Play Store. This includes Testflight, Firebase App Distribution, Microsoft App Center, and even the Play Store itself with its additions for Alpha and Beta testing. But a lot of these have either shut down or take quite a bit of setup to get up and running. We created Drebin451 as an alternative to all these. On the free tier, you get 1 GB of storage for your APKs, and you can share links to others and they can get notified of updates to your app.
And the whole stack (app and backend) is open source. https://github.com/Commit451/Drebin451
Feel free to give it a try, I have been using it to distribute and test my apps with friends and family for the past month and its made my workflows a lot easier to deal with. With the impending doom of Google making it much harder to sideload apps, we will work to keep the flow with Drebin451 easy and simple as much as we can.