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Re:KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating ... by Arnt on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @08:16AM (#19430068)
No it doesn't. They could check the developer's signature against an APK built from source. It's not that difficult.

BTW. In my case the app they urged me to replace the stock keyboard with a version that had been built without support for Norwegian. Is the language data in Android non-free?

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Re:KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating ... by kuschku on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @08:19AM (#19430084)
They can, and they offer that, if the developer supports reproducible builds.

Most apps aren’t possible to be built reproducibly, though, as the Android developer toolkit was never designed for reproducible builds and relies on stuff like filesystem ordering of files (which differs between machines).

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