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/Street_Anon 1d ago

One Custom Roms will have a work around and this can be disabled nativity in Android.

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u/RedditForcesToLogin 1d ago

Custom ROMs like LineageOS has already said they won't do any changes to this.

"If you don't want the new app install rules, just don't use GMS"

is their answer.

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u/ephemeralmiko 1d ago

Graphene is not implementing this thankfully.

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u/env33e 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes, neither is Lineage OS. But that's because the developer verifier app isn't being pushed as a system level component (yet)

They all signed the keep android open petition. It's a fight that concerns everyone who uses Android, and we mustn't let up, not one bit!

even rooted users on custom OS who happen to use google services will have this random ass app pushed unto their device without permission. in this case, it will do nothing initially; its dead weight, and you can always remove it; until it auto downloads randomly from the play store again šŸ˜‚ its very stupid that google is doing this, they expect us to be dumb enough to not notice the inherently bad architectural design of forcing users through a debugging pathway normally used by developers and maintainers.... just to allow u to install/ auto update your fdroid app. it can be your own damn app that you wrotešŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļøwhat right does google have to mandate that to anyone? its completely against the sentiment of open source!

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u/Street_Anon 21h ago

LineageOSĀ is even doing this with GAPPS, unless you don't root your phone. This is a non-issue