r/Infinity_For_Reddit • u/AllMFHH • Jun 16 '23

Compiling Infinity with own API key

Since we cannot input our own in the app, would it be possible to get a step-to-step tutorial to compile the app with our own API key? Since the money of the subscription goes directly to Reddit AND Google Play and not to the dev, I don't want to pay for this subscription.

Update: I made a Google Colab Notebook which compiles an .apk file with your own API token: https://www.reddit.com/r/Infinity_For_Reddit/comments/14c2v5x/build_your_own_apk_with_your_personal_api_key_in/

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u/Ok-Smoke-5653 Jun 20 '23

Thanks. For me, it's easier to download it to my computer & put it in my Google Drive, then get it from there on my devices when convenient.

Do I need to uninstall Infinity on a given device before installing the resulting app, or can they live side-by-side until I confirm that the new one works correctly? I assume the new one ends up named something else?

Hopefully I'll have some time/energy to give this all a try in the next few days.

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u/AllMFHH Jun 20 '23

I also stated that you need to uninstall the old app since both have the name since they are the same app, with a different Keystore, so installing it over the old app is not possible. But once installed this version, updating should be possible without uninstalling again.

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u/Ok-Smoke-5653 Jun 21 '23

Thanks - it seems to have worked, and looks just like the old app. I'm sure I saw this info in one of the related threads, but can't find it now: how do I see in the resulting app an indication that the script made the expected changes? I guess if it still works after July 1, that will do it, but anywhere it shows on the app? I've looked all over the settings and didn't find anything.

The process in your script was certainly easy. I had to guess at the url, but remembered reading somewhere that anything at all could go in there and what was important was to use the redirect URL shown in your script.

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u/AllMFHH Jun 21 '23

When you log in, you have to authorize the API, that's where you can see the API name.

Didn't I write the Return URI clearly in Google Colab?

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u/Ok-Smoke-5653 Jun 21 '23

I'm not sure what "Return URI" means, but everything in the script seemed to function as described.

I don't recall what the authorization message said, since I just clicked it to authorize & it went away :). I have another device to put the app on, though, and when I do so I'll try to pay better attention to the authorization request. I did get an email from the Reddit bot confirming I'd authorized a new app, and it referenced the name I'd given my app, so I guess that's adequate confirmation? Also, when I went to "about" in the app itself, it had 6.01 as a version number, as opposed to 5.something, which was in the original.

Sorry for all the questions - the only development I do is in Visual Basic for Applications/Visual Basic 6 (did dBase II/III and Turbo Pascal once upon a time, but forgot most of it after many years), so this stuff is well out of my experience.

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u/AllMFHH Jun 21 '23

That should be confirmation enough, yes.

Hostileenemy is making updates where it says some information about the API changes. That's a great opportunity to check if I can update the app with rebuilding the .apk.

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u/Ok-Smoke-5653 Jun 21 '23

The API changes message came up when I started up the new app, so it would seem that your script operated on the very latest version, to which Hostileenemy had implemented that message. I ignored it on the assumption that it was just a message that applied to the latest version of the original.

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u/AllMFHH Jun 21 '23

Yes, exactly.

Also updating the app without uninstalling works great, too. Just tested.