Fuck… They are right. This makes a lot of sense.

Now I have to share this with everyone at work.

I have used an agent to try some test projects (this was about a year ago). I found that while the code did work for the most part, the agent overall produced code that was overly complex for what the initial brief asked of it. And that complexity made the code difficult to extend with even simple features.

I don’t use one anymore because I figured that, for my job, maintainability is critical and I don’t mind that the code takes me overall longer to write if it is well planned out and extendable.

Edit: I still would not use op’s code since 1. It’s not something I need, and 2. I don’t trust it.

I can get behind a delay to enable side loading and the warning screens are nothing to me since I can just click past them. Though the delay should be more like 30-60 minutes at the most.

The real problem is requiring devs (even outside of the play store) to identify themselves. That is ridiculous and does absolutely nothing to secure the device for the user. (It only secures it under Google for their interests)