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

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• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  not if the developer decides to sign the APK with a developer key issued by Google. the main issue here is that developers will be forced to identify themselves.

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  • MP3Martin@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So the users will have to get their own key and give it to the patcher/manager?

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    • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      im guessing the two possibilities are:

      1. the developer signs the apk with their developer key
      2. the user compiles an apk from the source code and signs it with their developer key

      someone correct me if im wrong

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