Last week I tried to publish my CoronaChartApp in google play. Unfortunately … the app was immediately suspended… I didn’t know that Google, Apple and Amazon banned everything about covid-19 and corona from their stores.
I looked for an alternative store. There are many alternatives… Aptoide is an alternative one and f-droid too. In order for Aptoide to work, an app must first be installed outside a store by the unknown sources method. The Aptoide app then serves as a marketplace where you can probably put your app. In my apps I normally put ads from google’s admob, I suspect this doesn’t work with non-google play repositories since you have to link to google play. I have looked at an alternative to admob for a while but decided to leave this alone for a while. Google uber alles…
An alternative is to make the app open source via f-droid. Unfortunately I think you have to install something again and I don’t like that at this moment…maybe tomorrow…. It is strange that you used to have much less problems with that, but now that you are used to installing everything from google play, everything is suspicious when installing your apk file direct on your phone. Maybe more of a psychological thing.
Maybe I should just slightly rebuild the CoronaChartApp … typhus might be allowed…. For people who are interested in corona apps outside of google play aptiode has them… but not my app at this moment…
…A note about the current covid-19 charts that I just refreshed, Brazil has a scary graph that is increasing and seems to get out of hand. Especially if you realize that these are the registered cases. In the graphs over the past 5 days, Canada has pushed my own Netherlands out of 10th place.