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Can you provide an Android APK directly to itch that doesn’t require Google Play Services? I specifically use itch.io to avoid that.

Team Terrible1 year ago

Hi, why do you avoid Google Play? Do you use another store like Amazon? We have historically not uploaded apks here as it helps protect us from people uploading our game to stores and making money off our work. (or worse, using our game to scrape people's phones)

>noderunner_1 year ago

I have a couple of Android devices, an Anbernic RG353P and an Amazon Fire HD 10. The first device doesn’t have any Play Store included and I’m not interested in installing it, as I get most of my apps from F-Droid. The Amazon Tablet was a cheap pickup during black friday and I have bought a few games from the Amazon Appstore before but again, I’m usually I’m just downloading apps from F-Droid and some games from Itch which I manage with Mitch: https://gardenapple.itch.io/mitch

I don’t think not uploading APKs protects you from bad actors, as folks could get the APK from their phones after downloading it from the Play Store using “adb”, be they so inclined and modify or redistribute it as they wish.