It's rough, but it's a whole lot worse if it was happening with the iOS store. No sideloading allowed there at all, you'd need to root the phones.
How about getting a previous copy of the Center app from a mirror site? Mike On Wed, Aug 4, 2021, 12:34 Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > I found this >> https://github.com/microsoft/appcenter/issues/2174 >> > > Our company sent a support mail to MS about this and they nonchalantly > explained, that > Due to Google Play policies, the Visual Studio App Center app is no longer > available in the Google Play store and there are no current plans to bring > the app back to the Google Play store. > What?! Now I have to invent a different way of distributing APK updates > for side-loading into the 20 company phones? Yes, apparently the > alternative is for the phone users to go to the App Center website and > sign-in (with which accounts?) and download the APK from there, if that's > the flow. This will change staff and business procedures. > > *Greg* > > Note > > Visual Studio App Center is no longer available in the Google Play store. > Unfortunately, Google Play store considers the in-app update code as > malicious behavior even if it isn’t used at runtime. There are no current > plans to bring the app back to the Google Play store due to their policies. > The same set of functionality is still available via the App Center install > portal. > >>
