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Google says Android is getting a "high-friction" sideloading flow, but insists it's an accountability layer about risk awareness.

The verification rollout, for which you can read sideloading restrictions, starts this year but really kicks into full effect next year. The issue for Google, Samsung and others, is that around ...

Google announced changes to Android app sideloading last year that would require developer verification as a safety measure, but the company somewhat backtracked with ...

Android is adding new verification steps to sideloaded apps, introducing friction for advanced users while aiming to reduce ...

Google is trying to keep Android users safer by making the sideloading app flow more difficult and convoluted, according to ...

As Google says itself, “online scams and malware campaigns are becoming more aggressive. At the global scale of Android, this translates to real harm for people around the world.” Thus the change. But ...

In late August, Google announced new rules for sideloading on Android. Under the policy, all developers must verify their identity starting from 2026 for security reasons. The policy sparked ...

Google is putting together its framework for Android developer verification, connecting dev names to even sideloaded apps. Recent additions to the Android SDK offer a little insight into how the ...

Android apps can apparently also be installed via sideloading without developer verification by Google. But the process may be more complicated than before.

I am so gutted that WinPhone died as it would be needed competition, also it was a better OS than both the alternatives. Apple and Google is a terrible duopoly tbh. Apple are a controlling walled ...