Okay, here is the formal release of my Android app "Zero". It does nothing. You launch it and it just immediately quits. It is literally the Android Kotlin sample project with a blanked icon and the single line `finish()` added to MainActivity.onCreate.
Precompiled apks are available. You may find this useful if you want to do nothing.
https://github.com/mcclure/android-zero/?tab=readme-ov-file#zeroapk
ugh. _landscape mode_ video. ;)
To really *chef's kiss* this, you need an animation
Is there any way it can have a draconian terms of service and privacy policy?
@lambdageek If I get even one person who says, honestly, to my face, they would make use of a version on the Play Store, I'll probably do it.
This said, I *have* been banned from the Play Store since roughly 2011¹ because I declined to give them a home address they could publish on my app pages.
¹ It might have been named something else at the time.
@a2_4am @lambdageek What?
When I first started publishing Android apps in 2009, there was no requirement to publish an address. Later (I checked, looks like it was in 2014), they added this requirement, and they are again strengthening it this year, there's a deadline in February Tusky is currently trying to figure out how to comply with.
If this was 2014 something called "gamergate" was happening then and I was targeted, which may have been why I didn't feel like publishing a home address.
@a2_4am @lambdageek Anyway I didn't fill out the required entries, my apps (which were increasingly not compatible with newer Android anyway) got pulled, and they sent me angry emails for years demanding an address I never provided before eventually stopping. I think quite a few apps got pulled for this same reason because people didn't want Google to dox them.
If I did this now I would have… methods, for making the address requirements acceptable.
@checkthreetimes My Lenovo tablet has a "taskbar" of apps to quick launch. I don't want this, but you can't turn it off, and you can't remove all the apps from it. So I tried making an app with a blank icon that immediately quits when you launch it, so I can use it as filler in the mandatory app bar.
… It *almost* worked.
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