[sirius87]

Many companies, institutions, public bodies hire external contractors to do a one-time development of a limited-scope app. I bet a bunch of them have their Google Play Console dev account email read by people in some engineering infrastructure function who know nothing about Android development.

Updating their apps now means an internal scramble and unexpected project costs. Not saying its wrong or that we shouldn't move forward. Just saying many were complacent and contractors may have good opportunties in this space.

[izacus]

There's nothing "unexpected" about a process that takes 2 years to enforce restrictions and has been communicated and has been in place for years.

[sirius87]

Unexpected in the sense that at the time of commissioning the project years ago, they did not anticipate this event down the line.

[izacus]

This process has been in place for literal years and every professional Android developer part of such commissioning would know about it. Just like every iOS developer would know that apps need to be maintained for new iOS releases.

This is just incompetent planning.