You can sideload apps on iOS. There are however highly annoying limitations.
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mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
How does this even matter if phone manufacturers block apps that aren’t approved by them? Forgive my ignorance, never done much mobile dev stuff
SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 days ago
even being Apple-notarized (what you mean by "approved") doesn't mean it'll be in the Apple App Store
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I suppose you can enforce additional politics into your store. Like forcing all apps being open source (like f-droid).
But everything will keep to be apple/google approved, at least until linux phone becomes more mainstream.
Until then I’m moving away from native app development, and focusing more on webapps and progressive apps.
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Yeah it really sucks. I was in the middle of developing an Android game and now I don’t really want to. Luckily I’m working with Unreal so I can just build it for desktop distribution anyways. But still, ugh.