{"id":1289,"date":"2019-01-15T21:28:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T02:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2019-01-15T21:28:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T02:28:47","slug":"the-inevitable-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2019\/01\/15\/the-inevitable-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"The inevitable happened"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was always uneasy about publishing my software on any proprietary platform, especially Google Play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you do that – you give up all control over the distribution of your application. Not only is it required to be proprietary (you can’t open-source your Google signing key) but the publisher can choose to take down your app at any time for any reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which happened to me at some point in the last couple of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My app (Everyone’s Timetable<\/a>) has been removed from Google Play. I don’t know when, I don’t know why. The Google Play Developer Console says the app has been removed for not following the developer agreement and that there are details in my email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are no details in my email, and I have no clue what happened. Your guess is as good as mine. And to be honest I don’t even care why they removed it. I don’t want it on there anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I could maybe republish it, but it’s a long and complex process which isn’t guaranteed to work since the app is sort of still there and I don’t know what the problem was in the first place. I don’t have the time or patience to stroke Google’s dick to make it happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I had cycles to spare I would put the app on F-Droid<\/a>, but I don’t even have the build environment to rebuild that app. Maybe one day I’ll do it just to see what it’s like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever.
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