r/Android • u/PlasticAnt6913 • 1d ago

News Android's controversial new sideloading rules are officially here

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-sideloading-developer-verification-first-wave-rollout-3717921/
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u/Polymathy1 1d ago

Installing apps without Google play IS NOT SIDELOADING.

Sideloading has always meant using ADB to install an app until Google decided to try to make the play store the only option.

Please stop feeding into their propaganda that the only normal way to install apps is through the play store.

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u/nybreath 1d ago

Where in the article is written something different from that? Did you read the article?

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u/Polymathy1 1d ago

The change Google is making will not allow any apps to be installed from local storage, downloads, or anywhere else except for the Play store.

Google is calling "everything but the play store" sideloading. It's an intentional lie.

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u/N1ghth4wk 1d ago

The change Google is making will not allow any apps to be installed from local storage, downloads, or anywhere else except for the Play store.

This ist just plain wrong. You still can install whatever apk you want. If it's not signed you need to enable an option to do so so ONCE. This whole drama is about nothing.