[spankalee]

Is this a new thing?

I had the original Mavic Mini and installed the DJI Fly App (v1.2.1 on my phone now) from the Play Store.

edit: here's the listing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dji.go.v5

Though it doesn't show up in search from the web.

edit 2: The Android download on their site is definitely an APK and not a Play Store link: https://www.dji.com/downloads/djiapp/dji-fly

Why in the world would they need to do this?

[Saris]

Even their play store app downloads a bundle of files to run after you launch it for the first time, which is against Google ToS.

[willdr]

Is it? Pretty much any serious game on Android does this.