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?
We'll see. The plan for now is a tcl flip with hotspot and a clamshell linux box in my pocket.
Please read the very first sentence in that slide. Then read through those steps again (and look at the steps inside of those steps).
Yes, there is a need still, or there are a series of annoying, anti-consumer steps involved, in an effort to have a walled garden.
Android and Google are not worth supporting over this. Again, not dealing with the play store first and thoroughly tells me this has nothing to do with security. If it did, they wouldn't be going this route.
I had a good look at the process. And yes it is not very convenient and or course it is not just to protect users, that is a secondary marketing effect.
I completely lost this view after all those heated debates, thanks.
As long as people claim that F-Droid will stop working and other stuff, based on the initial plans, I classify most of the debate as fear mongering .
And good luck and fun with your new setup. I still have an original OpenMoko, to bad GSM is dead here.
And, thanks for the debate.
Yeah I'm not debating that there is fear mongering about this at all, just - as you noted - this is not about protecting users. Thats a farce.
This is about Google trying to close up their ecosystem, device first. That is the issue I take with this whole situation, its a clear step in that direction being marketed as something it decidedly is not.
And I think Android users should recognize what it actually is, and try to find a different option than Apple or Google going forward.