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Re:An app can be a home-cooked meal by vinc on Friday January 05, 2024 @04:31PM (#38885240)
This happened to me. I wrote an Android app many years ago for my own need and after a month or two it was done. I have nothing to change, it works exactly as I want. But at some point Google decided that it didn't keep up and needed to be removed from the store. I'm not complaining, I can still install it with `adb` but nobody else can anymore. I'm not sure I can still build the binary though, probably not.
Re:An app can be a home-cooked meal by JohnFen on Friday January 05, 2024 @05:11PM (#38885691)
> I can still install it with `adb` but nobody else can anymore.

You don't need adb to sideload applications. If you enable sideloading, you can copy it onto the phone and run it that way.

Re:An app can be a home-cooked meal by will0 on Friday January 05, 2024 @07:40PM (#38887035)
As of Android 14 you cannot install apks if the sdk target version is too old. You must use adb with a special flag.