So, I tried to build an Android app...

For a recent project, I wanted to also offer an Android app. I’ve never built anything for Android and have exclusively developed within the Apple ecosystem (you can find some of my recent projects here), but figured it can’t be that different, right? Oh boy. The experience scarred me enough to write a blog post, that tells you the journey has been… something. This is my overview of the complete mess that is building for the Play Store, and why I likely won’t build another Android app in the future. 😅 First steps: Setting up my account To have clean separation between personal and professional stuff, I always create a new account. I do this for Apple, for YouTube, for emails - for anything really where I don’t want one thing to affect the other. Also having heard enough horror stories of Google accounts getting suspended, I didn’t want to risk that either a personal or professional account suspension takes down everything with it. I finished the first MVP version of my app and now it…