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minus-squaremfed1122@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 days agoHow does this even matter if phone manufacturers block apps that aren’t approved by them? Forgive my ignorance, never done much mobile dev stuff
minus-squareSailorMoss@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoYou can sideload apps on iOS. There are however highly annoying limitations.
minus-squaredaniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoI suppose you can enforce additional politics into your store. Like forcing all apps being open source (like f-droid). But everything will keep to be apple/google approved, at least until linux phone becomes more mainstream. Until then I’m moving away from native app development, and focusing more on webapps and progressive apps.
minus-squaremfed1122@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoYeah it really sucks. I was in the middle of developing an Android game and now I don’t really want to. Luckily I’m working with Unreal so I can just build it for desktop distribution anyways. But still, ugh.
minus-squareAatube@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoeven being Apple-notarized (what you mean by “approved”) doesn’t mean it’ll be in the Apple App Store
How does this even matter if phone manufacturers block apps that aren’t approved by them? Forgive my ignorance, never done much mobile dev stuff
You can sideload apps on iOS. There are however highly annoying limitations.
I suppose you can enforce additional politics into your store. Like forcing all apps being open source (like f-droid).
But everything will keep to be apple/google approved, at least until linux phone becomes more mainstream.
Until then I’m moving away from native app development, and focusing more on webapps and progressive apps.
Yeah it really sucks. I was in the middle of developing an Android game and now I don’t really want to. Luckily I’m working with Unreal so I can just build it for desktop distribution anyways. But still, ugh.
even being Apple-notarized (what you mean by “approved”) doesn’t mean it’ll be in the Apple App Store