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support for APK Extension files aka "OBB"

OBB files are used by lots of apps like games and MAPS.ME to distribute large chunks of data. This adds basic support for distributing OBB files via F-Droid. The idea is that they are installed before the APK, so that once the APK is installed, the OBB files are already in place and ready to use. This also provides an F-Droid-specific Intent method for apps to fetch the OBB download URLs in case the app itself needs to handle the OBB download/update. That is similar to how it works in Google Play.

The fdroidserver changes are already merged: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/merge_requests/143

https://developer.android.com/google/play/expansion-files.html

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