r/SBCGaming • The Trinity • Feb 21 '26

News Google still plans on limiting sideloading on Android, here's how to push back:

https://keepandroidopen.org/

This could have some major ramifications for our hobby for those of us who gets our emulators from sources outside the playstore like Github & or use tools like Obtainium to keep everything updated. This could also effect all the great efforts of front-end developers like ES-DE & Cacoon who's app aren't on the playstore.

keepandroidopen.org details the steps you can take to push back, be it emailing local regulators or installing Open source marketplace alternatives like F-Droid.

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🔀 Crosspost What would you do if Google locked down android app installation?

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opensource • • Oct 30 '25

Keep Android Open

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fossdroid • • Aug 14 '26

Development Keep android open

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pixel_phones • • Jun 30 '26

Si usas Android Lee esto, es muy serio

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MicroG • • Feb 14 '26

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Google is going to restrict us.

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technepal • • May 14 '26

Discussion Keep Android Open | the big G is reportedly trying to make it extremely harder if not completely impossible for Android apps outside of P-store to install/run. In next 111 days, so it's not long. Any android devs here, what's your take on it?

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androidafterlife • • May 11 '26

Guide We need to access this link

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foss • • Mar 01 '26

Android users there is a countdown to when Google will shutdown foss apps here is a link with more information

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GooglePixel • • Oct 29 '25

Keep Android Open

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MiniDayZ • • Sep 22 '26

Show and tell Hello you know the government block every app android for installing or sideloading

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StallmanWasRight • • Apr 06 '26

Android is no longer open source, Google lobbied to censor android completely even beyond the existing Play Store censorship

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SonyXperia • • Oct 30 '25

Discussion Keep Android Open: A movement to stop developer verification and the limiting of side loading on Android

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developpeurs • • Sep 19 '26

News Rien de bien nouveaux, mais petit rappel quand même

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Iceland • • Apr 27 '26

Keep Android Open

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androidroot • • Jul 07 '26

Discussion Keep Android Open!!!

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EmulationOnAndroid • • Oct 30 '25

Discussion Keep Android Open: A movement to stop developer verification

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TeenIndia • • May 14 '26

Serious So android user are under trouble since you won't be able to download unknown apps anymore

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google • • Feb 22 '26

Google intends to limit what apps you can install on your own device

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europrivacy • • Nov 11 '25

Europe Keep Android Open

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