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?

  • forbiddencherry@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • vapeloki@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Yes I am.

    I spend a long time of my career in IT Sec.

    80% of android users will freely install whatever APK from wherever.

    Info stealer infected fake apps are a massive risk to a huge part of the user base.

    Yes, it will get a little bit more complicated to sideload. But nobody is prevented from it.

    And everybody that is against user protection (and yes, this is fucking user protection, just not for you) is invited next Christmas to de-worm the android devices of my family without wiping them.

    EDIT for all those that only read the memes. Sideloading will NOT be disabled. You have to jump though extra hoops.

    Yes, the way they do this is not even testable yet and we can argue over details.

    I support the principal idea, as someone who had to live with the fallout of people who installed “it support apps” because someone told them to