Comment on I just released my first fully free Android game: Wandering Alchemist (GPS walking game)
nameisnotimportant@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Interesting concept and I wanted to try it. Downloaded from Aurora (because my phone is degooglized) and was kicked out of the game upon launch because google play isn’t enabled… Disappointing and I’d love to have it on F Droid too
Found it, Google injects by default an “Installer check” that blocks the app from running without Google Play.
I disabled it, try to get the newest version of the game (1.2.11) over Aurora and see if it runs :)
F Droid is a lot more messy, the game has to be 100% open source for it, which is not something I’m working on right now. I’d rather get it to iOS first.
What’s the problem with 100% open-sourcing? Third party libraries?
Wow that automatic installer check is really shitty from Google, I wonder why I never saw outrage about that, it will close access to most apps in degoogled operating systems
Probably because most people with degoogled android get most of their apps over f-droid anyway. I have like 3 play store apps, and two of those are messengers
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Ah, sorry, by default Google seems to inject some kind of Google Protection into new apps. You’re the third person asking about F Droid, I’ll have to take a look :)
I might need to do custom builds for that though (strip out Google plugins), I’ll put it on my todo list.