Comment by vinc
2 years ago
This happened to me. I wrote an Android app many years ago for my own need and after a month or two it was done. I have nothing to change, it works exactly as I want. But at some point Google decided that it didn't keep up and needed to be removed from the store. I'm not complaining, I can still install it with `adb` but nobody else can anymore. I'm not sure I can still build the binary though, probably not.
> I can still install it with `adb` but nobody else can anymore.
You don't need adb to sideload applications. If you enable sideloading, you can copy it onto the phone and run it that way.
As of Android 14 you cannot install apks if the sdk target version is too old. You must use adb with a special flag.