Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
$100 says they’re just going to make it require adb.
Did you read the article?
The company is building a new ‘advanced flow’ that allows these users to accept the risks of installing unverified apps. Previously, the only permitted method for experienced users to install apps from unverified developers was to use ADB.
Google never actually mentioned ADB, so the article and you are misinformed.
They did specifically say you will be able to bypass it with ADB (which now is going to be made easier, presumably)
They’ll make it requiring registration to enter a developer program or something to let you install crap.
What? Can you please make an effort to learn something, anything, about what you’re discussing?
Adb was always going to remain a viable method of installing “unsigned” apks. Google confirmed that pretty early on.
If you need to use adb to set a flag once that’s not too bad I suppose…
Oh no nothing so user-friendly. They’re gonna require them to be loaded via adb every time. And they’ll say that’s the only way they could do it for security or some shit.
That was already the case with the plan they had. This is supposedly something different.
I really hope you’re wrong
That was the plan before this latest announcement. Presumably this will be something different, probably allowing F-Droid and friends to keep working on-device somehow.
Which would not be that much of a problem if not for the first 2 weeks, until someone put out a GUI to do it, with integration with app stores to download automatically the app…
oh wait…
popcar2@programming.dev 11 hours ago
I’m guessing they’re going to hide it in developer tools with a bunch of warnings and no explanation on how to get there so regular users don’t turn it on by accident.
kokesh@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Which would actually make sense.