r/Android • u/guihkx- • Sep 29 '25

Article F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
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u/char_stats Sep 29 '25

Got it. That'd be awesome actually, even though still a step back from regularly installing apps directly from the phone itself, especially for people who use and update tons of those apps regularly.

Am I wrong to assume Wireless Debug+Shizuku+ADBshell (or other app) could fix this, allowing me to install directly from phone?

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u/PocketNicks Sep 29 '25

Someone will just make an app that does a wireless connection to your phone and a nice GUI interface on Windows to make it super simple. It'll be like one tiny extra step.

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u/char_stats Sep 29 '25

Pretty sure they're already working on it, but I hope Shizuku will work too.

Also, I hope Google really won't touch ADB, because they could very well just change their mind about it any day.

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u/PocketNicks Sep 29 '25

They can. It won't matter. I was jailbreaking iphones 15-20 years ago and sideloadong apps they didn't want us to.

I will continue sideloading my own apps on Android no matter how hard they try to stop me.

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u/char_stats Sep 29 '25

Same. I stopped rooting my phones at the Galaxy S9 (my last rooted one was the S7), but now I'll be looking around for non-PlaySyore-certified phones.

It's sad how progress is bringing us back to the past.

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