Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs
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Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs
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Re: Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs
#2Alternative app that's not encumbered by the Play Store's rules: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.ghostsq.commander/
Re: Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs
#3I'm confused, I thought the ability to install apps outside of Play is supported by the OS. In fact there's a permissions dialog that pops up when an app tries to install another app. This is critical functionality for, say, the FDroid app store, as well as the browser, which is how most people would acquire FDroid. Seems like a bad omen.
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#4Wonder if they'll block Firefox next since that (like many) allows you to download and install an apk just by opening it
Re: Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs
#5Alternative app that's not encumbered by the Play Store's rules: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.ghostsq.commander/
Its functionality is hindered by Google in that it can not download and install updates in background as Google Play does.
One has to root the phone and loose access to banking and SSO apps to get enough permissions for F-Droid.
EU anti-competition monkeys should have looked at that a long time ago.
Re: Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs
#6> As mentioned previously, your app (APK versions 1031, 1032, 1033, 1034, 1035 and 1036) causes users to download or install applications from unknown sources outside of Google Play.
Google Chrome can download APKs from sources outside of Google Play. By that logic Chrome should also be removed from the play store.
Any antitrust lawyers want to chime in? Why isn't this illegal?
Re: Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs
#7What happened to - “don’t be evil”?
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#8I am curious why Total Commander is the only one that is signaled out? There are thousand apps that are capable of doing this and TC is the only one that Google have an issue with. I feel that there is something more to the story. I read the article and Dev seemingly didn't do anything wrong but yet something fishy going on since Solid Explorer, F-Droid, Firefox, etc does not receive those notice from Google AFAIK.
Re: Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs
#9I'm confused, I thought the ability to install apps outside of Play is supported by the OS. In fact there's a permissions dialog that pops up when an app tries to install another app. This is critical functionality for, say, the FDroid app store, as well as the browser, which is how most people would acquire FDroid. Seems like a bad omen.
> I'm confused, I thought the ability to install apps outside of Play is supported by the OS.
It is.
What this is doing is forbidding apps that can install other apps from being in the Play store. Basically, if Total Commander wanted to give the finger to Google and refuse to remove the function, Google would remove them from the Play store, meaning you'd likely have to either use your browser to find and download the APK or install it over USB with ADB.
Re: Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs
#10Alternative app that's not encumbered by the Play Store's rules: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.ghostsq.commander/
Its functionality is hindered by Google in that it can not download and install updates in background as Google Play does. One has to root the phone and loose access to banking and SSO apps to get enough permissions for F-Droid. EU anti-competition monkeys should have looked at that a long time ago.
Android 12 supports background updates: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/12/features#aut...