Google says Android is getting a "high-friction" sideloading flow, but insists it's an accountability layer about risk awareness.

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I’m a huge fan of open source, and that’s one of the reasons I’m drawn to Android. However, new requirements surrounding sideloaded apps, which will start rolling out in October 2025, may be the most ...

Android is adding new verification steps to sideloaded apps, introducing friction for advanced users while aiming to reduce ...

Google is trying to keep Android users safer by making the sideloading app flow more difficult and convoluted, according to ...

Android apps can apparently also be installed via sideloading without developer verification by Google. But the process may be more complicated than before.

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Many e-readers released in recent years support app downloads or sideloading, but do not have Google Play or Google Play Services. It will soon become more challenging to do this with a new Google ...

As Google says itself, “online scams and malware campaigns are becoming more aggressive. At the global scale of Android, this translates to real harm for people around the world.” Thus the change. But ...

Well that's revolting news. I wonder what that means for backups of apps that were available thru Play Store and pulled? For example, we use Zoneminder and zmninja phone-app to check on stuff at home ...

Select Echo Show models can now be jailbroken, allowing you to ditch Fire OS for Android and install any app under the sun.

I am so gutted that WinPhone died as it would be needed competition, also it was a better OS than both the alternatives. Apple and Google is a terrible duopoly tbh. Apple are a controlling walled ...