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Installing Sinq

Sinq is available directly on the Google Play Store, and also distributed as a signed offline APK from its releases page.

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Before you start

Installing via direct APK

  1. Download the APK

    If you prefer installing without Google Play, open the releases page and download the file named Sinq-v1.5.10.apk from the assets list.

    Go to latest GitHub release

  2. Allow your browser to install apps

    Android blocks installs from outside the Play Store until you permit them, per app. When you open the downloaded file, Android will offer the setting directly, or find it yourself under Settings → Apps → Special app access → Install unknown apps, and turn it on for the browser or file manager you downloaded with.

  3. Open the file and install

    Tap the downloaded APK and confirm. Sinq opens with an introduction; the first thing worth doing is choosing your interface language and text size in Settings.

Permissions it will ask for

Only when you turn on a feature that needs them, and never for anything else:

Notifications
To show the prayer reminders you set. Asked the first time you enable one.
Exact alarms
So a prayer alarm rings at the hour you chose rather than whenever Android gets around to it.
Run at startup, and vibration
To re-arm your reminders after the phone restarts, and for the alarm's vibration.

There is no internet, location, camera, microphone, contacts or storage-scanning permission. The app does not have them to ask for. Full privacy policy.

If something goes wrong

“App not installed”
On Android 7 or older this used to be the whole story: Sinq needed Android 8.0 until version 1.7.0, and the phone had no way to say so. If that was your phone, the current release installs on Android 6.0 and up.
Otherwise, in the order worth trying. Play Protect blocks most apps installed from outside the Play Store, and on some phones says only “App not installed” rather than explaining itself — open Play Store → profile → Play Protect and turn off scanning while you install, or choose “Install anyway” if offered. Storage: the APK is 8 MB but needs about 40 MB free to unpack. A partial download produces a file that looks complete and is not; download it again on a steady connection. And if a copy of Sinq built from source is already on the phone, uninstall it first — export a backup from Settings → Data before you do, because your journal and records live in that copy.
“There was a problem parsing the package”
The download did not finish, or the file is not the APK. Only the file ending in .apk installs on a phone. Download it again, on a stable connection.
Play Protect warns about an unknown app
Expected. Google shows this for anything installed from outside the Play Store, whatever it contains. You can install anyway, or verify for yourself: the source is public and every release is built in the open by GitHub Actions from a tagged commit.
Reminders never arrive
Check that notifications and exact alarms are permitted for Sinq, that battery optimisation is not restricting it, and that the reminder is not scheduled inside your quiet hours. Sinq warns about that last one in Settings.

Anything else: open an issue.

Building it yourself

You need JDK 17 and the Android SDK (compileSdk 36). The content is bundled in the repository, so no content pipeline needs to run for a normal build.

git clone https://github.com/natinael96/sinq.git
cd sinq
./gradlew assembleDebug

The APK lands in app/build/outputs/apk/debug/. A build of your own is signed with your own key, so it will not install over a release copy and cannot be updated by one.