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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?
If I were a mobile dev I'd make GTK apps for Linux phones and use Pixiewood to create Android builds:
no and that's why i turned in my samsung for a pixel and flashed graphene on it.
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
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
Is Android Studio forcing you to register?
Does anyone here actually support Google's Developer Verification?
At best some are indifferent but I've never heard of anyone who actively supports this.
Is Play Store still worth the hassle i?
Never has been 🔫
Continue publishing app freely, do not verify yourself
Fuck google
I have getgoogleoff.me email domain 👍🏼
edit: from disroot
I think if Google (or Apple for that matter) wants to play this game, then everyone from the reviewer to the CEO should be held legally responsible when malware ends up not only verified but distributed by them. And by legally I mean also as accessory to the crime.
I paid the fee for a dev account near the beginning of Android. Haven't had any apps published in over a decade, but from what I understand my account is grandfathered in so I don't have to jump through as many hoops to get something published if I chose to, compared to newer accounts. Anyhow, since I have an account I suppose I'm unaffected by this decision. Still, it goes against the original spirit of Android as a free and developer-centric platform and I condemn it.
I think you still need to register/verify since it will require a valid ID and app IDs (package names).