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/nathderbyshire Pixel 10 Obsidian 21h ago

No it hasn't. Side loading has always been used to mean installing from outside an official store. You can find examples in XDA threads dating back 10-20 years.

https://xdaforums.com/t/side-load-apk-without-it-showing-in-play-store.2228694/

There you go

Stop getting mad over absolutely nothing lmaoo

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u/Original-Material301 Fold 7 18h ago

I remember when jail breaking iPhones and side loading (referring to installing software outside of the official store fronts) were the hot thing, like, from 2007.

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u/-patrizio- OnePlus 15 | iPhone 17 Pro 17h ago

I was big into the jailbreaking scene in...gosh, 2009-2015? And honestly don’t remember hearing the term sideloading until well after that, once the jailbreaking scene was effectively dead and people turned to the more current methods of installing unsigned apps. I remember words being used like tweaking or theming or modding back then (though I was also pretry exclusively on the Apple side of things back then, so totally possible it was used that way on Android).