@tedmielczarek@mastodon.social
Post #1620119
2026-03-19 20:12 UTC
@TimWardCam @grote I feel like you're inventing a weird fictional scenario here to be mad about, but Google Play already has support for limited distribution of apps for internal testing without requiring all of the steps required to publish an app in the Play Store: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9845334?hl=en
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@grote@chaos.social 2026-03-19 20:18
@tedmielczarek My weird fictional scenario is normal people using @fdroidorg to get their apps. They have apps that are downloaded millions of times per week. A hobbyist exception to distribute one app to 20 people who need to first opt-in doesn't cut it for those. Also your link goes to Google Play testing, so you may not have understood the issue.
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@TimWardCam@c.im 2026-03-19 20:58
@tedmielczarek @grote No, it was a real job I had at a real company. I just wondered whether people would still be able to do that.