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The Google play store is a 'problem' only because of google's mandate that devices must be 'certified' as I read it in another thread & google's announcement. The cost of certification is supposed to be $10,000 per model & supposed to 'make the device more safe' when using the play store.
It explains the problem I had with the Resurrection rom on my Tab Pro; even tho the RR rom was over 1 yr old, it worked until early this year; then I switched to the Lineage rom as I felt the the RR was a dead rom as being over 1 yr & no fixes.
Also google dictates that the updates to any app on play store will have to target andoid 8, oreo, or later beginning in Nov 1, 2018. The compliance means that apps like Calibre Companion will not be able to pass the file path/name to another app but must make a copy of the file to another app. e.g. CC will be sandboxed like what ios does on ipad & android will be less useful for what the users want.
I was not planning to have play store update/mess-up my copy of Calibre Companion or Moon+Reader pro so play store does not matter to me.
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