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[Feedback] App installs: share your experiences & suggestions
Pretty sure it's not possible on the way the playstore is working and yes, i was thinking about that a long time ago but came to the decision that if you use play store functionalities (where the private one is part of), it must work like this because that's the identifier (like in a DB) the playstore looks out for the app information like version and so on.
So if you would allow it, they get mixed up or need to be 2 completely seperate systems etc. where both doesn't sound good.
So, finally you need to use a MDM which can provide apk's directly, so having version control there (like WS1 and Mobicontrol or others) or you need the app developers to create an apk with a bundleID unique for you like "their.bundleID.yourCompany" so you can make use of the private play store.
But again, would way more likely have a full version control inside of MGP or even the possibility to load apk's directly from playstore to provide them via the MDM (maybe isolate the download possibility to managed google playstore accounts and ofc only to free apps).
This is the section for asks and suggestion, I know it is not possible today. I feel that managed play store and public store store should not abide the same rules, just like versioning, reverting and other suggestions from this thread.
Rakib​ this brings up an interesting thought. With Google potentially being forced into opening up to 3rd party app stores as a result of their ongoing Epic court case I wonder if we could even see the advent of a new Enterprise app store completely separate from Google Play. In fact, most EMM providers could look to launch their own version of an app store depending on how this plays out.
Come to think of it, if Android is opened up to 3rd party app stores I may even consider building out a custom app store for just one app that I manage. Instead of installing my app my end customers would install my app store and then I'd be able to manage the availability of new versions of apps and different test tracks from there. Hmmm 🤔.You are on to something interesting here!
