Termux is already available on the Play Store, so I imagine it won’t be an issue. Sideloading will still be possible, it just requires developer’s give Google their private information (which is fucking stupid) but you already have to do that to be on the Play Store, so I don’t see why Google wouldn’t verify the Termux team.
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ravachol@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How does this affect termux? Is it going to die or is it only going to be able to have packages that are from registered developers?
lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
kieron115@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
look at it from the pessimists point of view, they could have killed sideloading too!
ravachol@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah I really hope they wont ask termux packages or apps installed through termux to also be verified.
tal@olio.cafe 3 weeks ago
That’s actually a really interesting question.
I understand that Apple takes issue with packages that can themselves “take packages”. But historically, I don’t believe that Google has. Of course, Google also hasn’t done the registration thing historically, either.