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"""
Google announced that as of September 2026, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google.

This registration will involve:

- Paying a fee to Google
- Agreeing to Googleโ€™s Terms and Conditions
- Providing government identification
- Uploading evidence of the developerโ€™s private signing key
- Listing all current and future application identifiers
"""

https://keepandroidopen.org/

#FuckGoogle #KeepAndroidOpen

Keep Android Open

Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

@alice where is the fee?

@DaveFlater from Google's announcement link, by omission:

"""
If you are a developer who doesn't distribute apps widely, we recognize that your needs may be different from commercial developers and have provided this free account for you. To maintain ecosystem security, apps can be installed on up to 20 devices that end-users have explicitly authorized.
"""

"Free limited account" implies the "developer" account isn't.

There's no dollar amount in the announcement, however.

https://developer.android.com/developer-verification

Android developer verification  |  Android Developers

Get started building your Android apps.

Android Developers
@alice @DaveFlater google devleoper accounts have always costed money, smh google effectively stole money from me when they changed their policy to be 'you must publicly dox yourself to publish anything on google play' and then removed everything i had published, but then also wouldn't refund it because i had apparently already published an app on the store :/
@Li @alice @DaveFlater use a registered agent out of like Delaware or some shit. Isn't that how all the big shady orgs do it?
@omegatotal @alice @DaveFlater i dont have stuff that is worth publishing enough for that