The first real money I ever made from game development was on Android. It was in 2013, when Android was still the underdog compared to the iPhone, and was being touted as a great platform for developers.

Disclaimer:

Even though the title says “my”, this is not my blogpost.

  • helenslunchEnglish
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    9 days ago

    There are plenty of repositories for F-Droid

    I said paid.

    it is not really beneficial for most companies to compete with Google Play

    Of course it is. The reasons are detailed in the OP.

    user experience will be worse (install warnings, no auto-update)

    This is a thing of the past at this point.

    and people may get affected by malware if they don’t pay attention

    The same can happen on any other store.