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> A lot of apps that users use to download and sideload apps (browsers, mail clients, messaging apps) have no reason to go and implement the session-based insta
by kllrnohj 5y ago
> A lot of apps that users use to download and sideload apps (browsers, mail clients, messaging apps) have no reason to go and implement the session-based installer API
As the article notes even if those apps do want to use the session-based installer API for some reason, they can just flag that the APK came from either PACKAGE_SOURCE_LOCAL_FILE or PACKAGE_SOURCE_DOWNLOADED_FILE to trigger the same side-load protection behavior.
Which, yeah, I don't see why something like eg Firefox would be interested in bypassing this behavior.