They want developers to share their IDs to have their apps on the play store. The limited groups is so hobbyist developers can still share apps without having to jump through those hoops and so the users don’t need to go and enable sideloading, with the caveat that there’s a call on how many users you can send it to it looks like.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
That’s already the case. The new thing is that they want developers to share their ID to have their apps be installable on Android in the first place, no Play Store involved.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 54 minutes ago
But the sideloading flow via dev options that they have revealed doesn’t require that and it’s easy to do…
Arcadeep@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I wonder if this is a direct result of apps like ICE watch or ones that track billionaire planes and stuff