Does anyone here actually support Google’s Developer Verification?

I don’t. I’ve put a warning about it in my repo because I’m against policies like sideloading restrictions, forced ID verification.

Curious what other devs here think. Is Play Store still worth the hassle?

  • lil_tank [any, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    3 days ago

    Is Play Store still worth the hassle?

    If you’re a for-profit business yeah more or less, if not hell no just publish on f-droid or something

    • Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de
      4·
      2 days ago

      f-droid needs the app to be foss. maybe something like codebergXobtainium will work for closed source. There is also itch.io with the inofficial mitch client which could be worth a upload pipeline but i dont know

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        13 hours ago

        you can always just host your own fdroid repo, there’s nothing magical about it and it’s trivial for users to add it to their client.

      • Remy@lemmy.today
        4·
        2 days ago

        Are there any relevant/common reason to keep an app closed source if its NOT for profit?

          • Remy@lemmy.today
            1·
            8 hours ago

            I am not so much into programming, but what extra skill is required to add a license and make the repo public? Maybe if you have a closed source dependency and would need to replace it, then it would be a skill issue.