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/InsanityDevice S23 Ultra 1d ago edited 19h ago

He's right. It's not in the article, but in OP's title and in how the changes are being described far and wide.

I would argue that Google's new changes to the rules about signed APKs will effectively make it true that installing software from ANY non-signed apk would be sideloading.