Why (some) KDE software are not available in Android stores?

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Mittwoch, 10. Januar 2024 19:12:03 CET Volker Krause wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 10. Januar 2024 15:44:27 CET Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > No. Wait. For new apps there's also a technical reason. For new apps
> > Google
> > Play requires application bundles (AAB) instead of APKs. We can build AAB
> > (at least for Qt 5) on invent, but we cannot sign them yet. Shouldn't be
> > to
> > hard to add given that it's mostly identical to APK signing. I'm going to
> > work on this once signing of Windows binaries is done.
> 
> Related to that: we probably want to use a new key for the AAB signing, as
> we have to hand that one out to Google when publishing AABs to their store
> AFAIU?

Yes, we have to hand the signing key(s) to Google. We should follow Google's 
advice and use separate signing keys for all new applications.

Regards,
Ingo
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