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?
f-droid needs the app to be foss. maybe something like codebergXobtainium will work for closed source. There is also itch.io with the inofficial mitch client which could be worth a upload pipeline but i dont know
Are there any relevant/common reason to keep an app closed source if its NOT for profit?
maybe preference or skill issue. so not really, no
I am not so much into programming, but what extra skill is required to add a license and make the repo public? Maybe if you have a closed source dependency and would need to replace it, then it would be a skill issue.
you can always just host your own fdroid repo, there’s nothing magical about it and it’s trivial for users to add it to their client.