If you've wondered how Android developer verification affects Accrescent, today we have a new blog post explaining briefly what it is, how it impacts us, and how we're responding.

https://blog.accrescent.app/posts/android-developer-verification/

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Accrescent and Android Developer Verification

Google recently announced that starting next year, Android will require all apps to be registered by verified developers for users to install them on their devices, i.e., all apps must be registered by a developer who has performed identity verification with Google or else they won’t be installable on certified Android devices. While users have asked us about this new requirement (specifically about how it affects Accrescent), we have been waiting to provide an official response until more information became available. Now, although we are still waiting on Google to provide more details on how the program will work in the context of third-party app stores, we have enough information to explain how it will affect Accrescent and how we are responding to the change.

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@accrescent Has their been any news on this? While verification doesn’t affect Accrescent’s typical operations, there hasn’t been much word from the project, and the newest commit in the repo seems to be from 2 months ago.

@moshimotsu There hasn't been much news, no. We've gotten a response from Google indicating that they're aware of the problems we have and the solutions we need, but nothing specific.

The project is still in very active development! Most work recently has been on the Accrescent server at https://github.com/accrescent/parcelo/tree/massive-overhaul. You can see a lot of changes there. They're just not on the main branch.

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The Accrescent console backend. Contribute to accrescent/parcelo development by creating an account on GitHub.

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