With Google making it more closed every year, I wonder if is it worth it. I don’t want to learn it to find a job or anything, it’s purely for open source development.
I’ve seen a few devs dropping FOSS apps due to Google decisions. Like the developer of a music player I used (Phocid):
According to him and I agree:
Because Google is essentially killing apps distributed outside of Google Play, I have lost interest in Android development and plan to switch to a different OS once my current five-year-old phone dies.
Oh man, I totally get you. But as others said, it is relatively easy to publish apps on the Play Store.
And I honestly think that the fight is far from over. I think it only serves Google’s purpose to already admit defeat.
If not in the US (whom I believe to be highly interested in tracking down “rogue” app authors), then at least other jurisdictions might outlaw this anticompetitive behavior.