Correct me if I&#x27;m wrong, but couldn&#x27;t he host a private repository like the Guardian Project does with his own binary signed with his own key? People would have to manually add the repo, but I believe F-droid lets you do that. Fdroid just wants everything they build to be signed with their key, which to me makes sense. The Pale Moon dev had the same or similar reservations last I checked, but I heard nothing about a private repo.<p>It would be more work for him of course, maintaining a repo and pushing updates to two locations, but I don&#x27;t think it would be <i>too</i> much extra work and it sounds like a lot of people are looking for a non-GP repo. Pushing to your own server is easier than updating in an app market anyday.<p>At the end of the day, he can of course spend his time how he wants, I just think there&#x27;s a loud if not large group that would like a Google Play Services-less Signal.