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Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

How does this affect “second-party” apps (i.e. apps you have created yourself)? Are you still allowed to go to Android studio, make an APK, transfer it to your own phone, and install that app? If no, this spells the death of experimental indie developers on Android.

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nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
yes. you will get a developer key from Google, and then you will sign your APK with your key.

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- drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  You don’t need to sign anything just turn off play protect with 1 adb command:
  
  adb shell settings get global package_verifier_user_consent adb shell settings put global package_verifier_user_consent -1 # disable Play Protect
  
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  - willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Not a solution to our problem, but this is a crumb in our favor.
    
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  - essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I know why you included both, but saying “1 adb command” and then posting two is funny to me.
    
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    drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    One gets the current value to verify it and another actually sets a new value. It’s the way these commands are usually shared.
    
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  - SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Does this work with any app or just second party ones? Can you re-enable it?
    
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    drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yes it modifies the phone not the app and you can re-enable it anytime with 1 instead of -1
    
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progandy@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
They might copy from apple. 3 apps with a self signed cert that needs to be renewed every week…

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