Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoThis simply doesn’t work anymore for all apps on my Pixel 8.
Many I installed manually just redirect to the Play store with the message it could harm your device and you should download from Play.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Pixel 8a on graphene here so I’m not getting this. Maybe on stock
faerbit@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Pixel 8a on stock here. I have no idea what @hawk is talking about. I just install any app, that I want. I might had to alter some settings, to do it, but I don’t remember doing that.
KingRandomGuy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
GrapheneOS patches this behavior if apps match their Google play signature IIRC. This is a behavior that apps on the play store can opt into (basically they block operation if they aren’t installed via Play).
It was rather annoying until recently, since some apps require you to be on a certified Android install to find them in the Play store, but don’t actually check play integrity in the app. These apps when installed via Aurora wouldn’t work for me until Graphene patched this.