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This must be because of Epic's win in antitrust court. What someone needs to do is create a "Store" browser that loads apps from random websites like https://site.tld/app.apk You could manually parse AndroidManifest.xml and allow only apps that expose I'm somewhat interested in doing this myself actually. What do people think?
Looks like Google will also be limiting each developer's number of apps and installations unless you pay them $25. https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides/...
I never really got into "phone" progrmaming, always waiting for the shenanigans to die down. But somehow the shanigans have gotten worse and for a significant chunk of the world population, the phone is the only computation device they have at all.
i made and released some apps in the early days. Got tired of it and got tired of the reminders from google to add banners, screenshots, submitting icons to support multiple resolutions.. notifications that apps i haven't touched in decade are no longer compatible etc. so much extra work involved that isn't building the app. I worry how this will affect fdroid etc.
I already got popup in dashboard this morning
> Google will begin to verify the identities of developers distributing their apps on Android devices, not just those who distribute via the Play Store This is absolutely unacceptable. That's like you having to submit your personal details to Microsoft in order to just run a program on Windows. Absolutely nuts and it will not go as they think it will.
They did it the right way for a very long time and yet people keep buying iPhones, I think I would do the same if I were them, users clearly don't seem to care about openness and freedom to use their devices however they want. I mean, people care about the color of archaic text messages. There is nothing to save.
My phone is my phone, not Google’s. They have absolutely no right to prevent me from running whatever software I wish on that phone.
This must not be allowed to stand.
Time to donate to GrapheneOS[1] and alternatives[2]. Or contribute [3]. [1] https://grapheneos.org/donate [2] https://members.calyxinstitute.org/donate [3] https://grapheneos.org/hiring
This is crazy, this means 10 years from now only terrorists will distribute software. Unacceptable! How many platforms now allow one to build and distribute a binary?
Even Windows has scary warnings now that pop up unless you pay several hundred dollars a year plus you have to go through a completely unreasonable process (that often requires being shipped a physical USB device) just to sign your application.