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> If your app has a lot of users and you lose the signing key, IIRC you'll cause an outage due to the fact that existing users will not be able to update the ap
by Izkata 3y ago
> If your app has a lot of users and you lose the signing key, IIRC you'll cause an outage due to the fact that existing users will not be able to update the app without uninstalling it and re-installing it, causing data loss.
Half right: it means you can't publish updates under the same package name. They can continue using the old version, so it doesn't force any sort of data loss, but if they want to upgrade they have to find the new app, it won't be a reinstall-the-same-one situation.
- denysvitali 3y agoYes, but that's basically migrating to a new app. This means that the new app can't access the /data/data part of the other app. This is of course not a huge deal for apps that are just wrappers of cloud services - but apps with local data will suffer the most.
- prmoustache 3y agoOnly apps with local data that don't propose a mechanism to export/backup. I don't know many of them as this would be stupid.