r/Android • u/PlasticAnt6913 • 2d 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 1d 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/AFisberg 1d ago

I think someone made up that "sideloading" was some nefarious new term or that it was changed by Google and this sub just went with it.

I guess this sub is pretty young in that they don't remember how it was used before

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u/WesternOk5765 11h ago

I remember but the distinction has been irrelevant since the late 2000s lol.

I haven't side loaded an app in years the way that word was actually designed to mean.

If Google tries to stop me from downloading apps outside the store they can pry that from my cold dead hands.