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submitted 6 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/fdroid@lemdro.id

Last month, "Google unilaterally decreed that Android developers everywhere in the world are going to be required to register centrally with Google."

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

PC Mag: F-Droid Warns Google’s New Rules Could Kill Third-Party Android App Stores https://www.pcmag.com/news/f-droid-warns-googles-new-rules-could-kill-third-party-android-app-stores @PCMag #Google #Android

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[-] rezad@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

don't worry guys. google has posted a blog post

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets-talk-security-answering-your-top.html

and has cleared the issue at the very start.

1.Does this mean sideloading is going away on Android? Absolutely not. Sideloading is fundamental to Android and it is not going away. Our new developer identity requirements are designed to protect users and developers from bad actors, not to limit choice. We want to make sure that if you download an app, it’s truly from the developer it claims to be published from, regardless of where you get the app. Verified developers will have the same freedom to distribute their apps directly to users through sideloading or through any app store they prefer.

so you can sideload freely, with the tiny tiny condition that you sideload just the apps that google approves of.

this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2025
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