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The Play Store is not required for APK distribution. Not now, nor has it ever been.
by rstat1 1mo ago
The Play Store is not required for APK distribution. Not now, nor has it ever been.
- Zagitta 1mo agoyet https://keepandroidopen.org/ https://keepandroidopen.org/
- rstat1 1mo agois like much of the discourse around the changes, overly sensationalized and borderline false. The only change made that's relevant to sideloading-a-downloaded-APK as far I understand, is a 24hour delay in enabling the ability to do so, which is a wildly overblown non-issue.
- jwitthuhn 1mo agoIt is less secure though, and they are doing it in the name of security. People are right to call that out as bullshit. Availability is a key component of security, and this is a 24-hour DOS on apps not blessed by google.
- dannyw 1mo agoThey’ve announced they’re changing the policy to require ‘verification’ in future Android versions. It will likely be delayed, just like Manifest v3, but eventually it will happen.
- mook 1mo agoWell, they seem to have started shipping parts of that; recently I noticed https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.verifier https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... was installed for me.