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F-Droid already exists.
Yes but none of my friends and family who own an Android device know about it. I'm talking about a mainstream alternative android store. The design of f-droid is not appealing enough.
Make it mainstream. Spread the word. Install it on family devices.
How else you think mainstream will happen?
$50 sent, thanks Jason, no thanks Google. A small amount relative to the value that you're giving to the world, but hopefully a few pints won't go amiss. Fuck gatekeepers.
I'd love to use the F-Droid version but it's not up-to-date, and isn't published by Jason, so it's not signed by him either.
Publishing it on the website with a built in update-check might be one solution I'd be happy with, it'd only need a text file hosted on the website and a check, perhaps each time WG is activated to see if there is an update. Modern Android versions can be toggled to allow installing software from external sources, so the app could "install itself".
It's unfortunate that the developer resubmitted the app without the donation link, open source projects having a donation link in their apps does not violate Google Play policies. > Here are some examples of products not currently supported by Google Play In-app Billing: > One time-payments, including peer-to-peer payments, online auctions, and donations. https://play.google.com/about/monetization-ads/
It indeed is unfortunate. But what other recourse did we have? The first objective, before we even consider donations or anything, is to make our software available and functional to our users. So we had to resubmit. And it's not like the resubmission process is instantaneous; as of writing, the app still isn't back in the store. But anyway, now what? Let's say things return to normal, but we still want to put the si…
I would resubmit the app with the donation link and continue to document and share what happened. Please do not allow them to set a precedent with a popular project like WireGuard.
It's important to share every detail of the issue, the messages you received, your replies, and the policy links you were given about the alleged policy violations.
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>(for the time being) Why do you have that caveat ? You can use f-droid forever.
Because I prefer sticking to APKs signed by the author of the app. F-Droid APKs are signed with different keys, typically.
For anyone else publishing mobile apps: Neither Apple nor Google allow bypassing the store's purchase system by linking to external donation pages. No matter the app type, it will result in rejection.
The same app has the same link on its iOS app and just in the last week was updated twice.
Spamming users with notifications is also against the rules and everybody does it anyways.
It's unfortunate that the developer resubmitted the app without the donation link, open source projects having a donation link in their apps does not violate Google Play policies. > Here are some examples of products not currently supported by Google Play In-app Billing: > One time-payments, including peer-to-peer payments, online auctions, and donations. https://play.google.com/about/monetization-ads/
It indeed is unfortunate. But what other recourse did we have? The first objective, before we even consider donations or anything, is to make our software available and functional to our users. So we had to resubmit. And it's not like the resubmission process is instantaneous; as of writing, the app still isn't back in the store. But anyway, now what? Let's say things return to normal, but we still want to put the si…
You can look at r/videos and see how many examples there are, the link in [1] provides quite a few...
So hey, go get people to repost across social media, maybe get a nice trendy hashtag going like #freewireguard and maybe their "AI" (or PR department) might actually do something useful.
Because to me, I've noticed more and more companies only reverse decisions or backpeddle once there's enough shit flying at them (See Blizzard recently, for example).
[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/search?q=flair%3AYouTube%2BD...
For anyone else publishing mobile apps: Neither Apple nor Google allow bypassing the store's purchase system by linking to external donation pages. No matter the app type, it will result in rejection.
This is really unfortunate. If Google is ready to arm twist a popular project like Wireguard, smaller indie open source apps stand little to no chance than to bend over. This App store gatekeeping should be illegal. Selling the hardware/OS and marketplace by the same person is more like online dictatorship at this time.
For anyone else publishing mobile apps: Neither Apple nor Google allow bypassing the store's purchase system by linking to external donation pages. No matter the app type, it will result in rejection.
> Here are some examples of products not currently supported by Google Play In-app Billing:
> One time-payments, including peer-to-peer payments, online auctions, and donations.