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.
>
>>

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