Android Pub is a Medium publication of Android development tutorials and essays on tooling, cross-platform choices, and Google Play account terminations.
HN links it for posts on Google terminating developer accounts without appeal, which commenters cite as a reason to distrust Google or build for the web.
Google has lost much of the trust developers placed in them, first of all by terminating products some of us loved [1] and also by terminating user accounts in an automated fashion with no way to appeal.
Imagine your business depending on Google Play Store, then getting your account banned due to some association with another account that supposedly broke their ToS, with no way to contact support, to appeal the decision or to even find out what the hell happened [2].
I mean, imagine that your spouse buys a Nexus phone, sells it [3] and your account gets banned via association, along with your right to publish apps or content on Play or to access your email archive.
And if you think this can't happen with a GSuite account, since that's supposedly the gold standard for their support, how about getting your entire company of 100-150 people banned [4]?
So the answer for me at least is that I have a trust issue with Google. No thanks, AWS has been around for longer, I haven't heard so many horror stories from them and if I'm feeling adventurous one day, I might try Microsoft's Azure, since they have actual support and without the history of shutting down products over night.
[1] https://killedbygoogle.com/
[2] https://android.jlelse.eu/google-just-terminated-our-start-up-google-play-publisher-account-on-christmas-day-5cb69a454da0
[3] https://www.dansdeals.com/shopping-deals/google/dont-mess-with-the-google/
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What are the guarantees that I am not ending up with the same situation like those companies who's dev account got terminated without the possibility of appeal? AWS and Azure build into relationships with cloud architects and companies doing cloud migrations. I see GCP as a liability at this stage based on the stories that I read here on HN. Is GCP any different than the App Store? Do I have a chance to appeal if they detect something wrong in our infra? Will they terminate my account permanently and will I be banned forever? These are the questions that I need answer for before I even think about using GCP.
https://android.jlelse.eu/google-just-terminated-our-start-up-google-play-publisher-account-on-christmas-day-5cb69a454da0
https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/8w9shu/help_google_terminated_my_developer_account_and/
You might find android annotations interesting, or https://android.jlelse.eu/the-ultimate-android-development-framework-f4382677e0c6#.hgzs2jiqs
Came across this (and remembered about Android annotations, which made life a bit less painful) and thought it might help you if you were trying to build the app equivalent of some basic CRUD stuff, and fetch some data into a view etc.
another reason to build for the web: https://android.jlelse.eu/google-just-terminated-our-start-up-google-play-publisher-account-on-christmas-day-5cb69a454da0