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You guys know you can distribute your app outside Play Store right? Not saying that's a long term business plan for most, but if you are at the point you can't
by cat_plus_plus 3y ago
You guys know you can distribute your app outside Play Store right? Not saying that's a long term business plan for most, but if you are at the point you can't even get 20 people to install, world of mouth can clear at least this hurdle.
As for requirement itself, non-trivial apps that didn't get even this level of testing are likely to be quite broken. Will you really test on different form factors and Android versions / anticipate all user behavior? So I can see the case for protecting basic store reputation, in that anything you download is unlikely to crash right away or drain your battery etc.
- mcny 3y agoYou can also set up your own repo for fdroid. With Android 12 and above, neostore can auto update apps. It actually works now. And I believe Android 14 will bring even more updates here but I don't remember exactly what it is ..
- veeti 3y agoWhat do you base this assumption on exactly? Back in the day I released my first app without even a physical Android device to countless happy users. In the enterprises I have professionally worked we didn't have 20 dedicated testers.
- YetAnotherNick 3y agoExactly. As a startup asking the first 20 users some other way of installing the app which is not in play store doesn't give any confidence.
- Testers20 3y ago[flagged]