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Vela's F-Droid repository

Vela publishes its own F-Droid repository, so you can install and update it from any F-Droid client (F-Droid, Droid-ify, Neo Store) without sideloading.

Add the repo

Paste this one line as the repository address - the official F-Droid client, Droid-ify and Neo Store all accept it and pick up the fingerprint automatically:

https://pimpinpumpkin.github.io/Vela/repo?fingerprint=F374920F2F5F38D7508D0B042125B8EAF23CF0F06FA7490280FB77115BB091DE

(In your client: Settings → Repositories → Add repository, paste, refresh, search for Vela Maps, install.)

If your client wants the address and fingerprint separately, use:

  • Address:

    https://pimpinpumpkin.github.io/Vela/repo

  • Fingerprint:

    F374920F2F5F38D7508D0B042125B8EAF23CF0F06FA7490280FB77115BB091DE

What the repo serves

  • The latest stable release (promoted weekly from the nightly line). This is what the repo suggests, so a normal install only ever updates on stables.
  • The newest nightly build when it is ahead of stable. Nightlies sit above the suggested version, so clients treat them as unstable: to get them, enable unstable/beta updates for Vela in your client (in the official F-Droid client that's Settings -> Expert -> Unstable updates; Droid-ify and Neo Store have a per-app release-channel toggle). Or track nightlies straight from GitHub with Obtainium's "include prereleases".

The repo index is rebuilt automatically after every successful CI run and weekly stable promotion (.github/workflows/fdroid-repo.yml) and hosted on GitHub Pages. The index is signed with a dedicated repo key; the APKs carry the same Vela signing key as the GitHub releases and the in-app updater, so switching install sources never forces a reinstall.

Two different fingerprints, do not mix them up. The one in the repo URL above signs the repo INDEX, which is what tells your F-Droid client the listing is genuine. The APKs themselves are signed with the Vela app key, whose certificate fingerprint is:

SHA-256  29:93:8B:48:58:06:3E:42:E6:77:FF:95:C9:01:CD:48:24:8A:7F:03:2A:3A:E8:5F:9B:9E:56:17:56:8B:0D:36

That is the one to check an APK against (apksigner verify --print-certs), and it is identical on every channel, which is why moving between install sources never asks you to uninstall first.

Why not the official f-droid.org catalog?

The main F-Droid catalog builds every app from source on their own servers, which requires all dependencies to be free of prebuilt binaries. Vela bundles prebuilt libraries (the sherpa-onnx voice runtime and OsmAnd's offline router) and downloads voice models and offline map regions at runtime, which does not fit that pipeline today. A self-hosted repo has no such constraints and updates the moment a release is cut.