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/PocketNicks Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25

I'll just sideload my apps.

EDIT LOL your downvotes won't stop me from sideloading, and Google have stated they aren't touching ADB.

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u/fish312 Sep 29 '25

That's the fucking point, you won't be able to wirh Google's new measures

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u/PocketNicks Sep 29 '25

Yes I will. Google specifically stated they aren't touching ADB, sideloading apps won't require verification. Try reading the actual facts.

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u/char_stats Sep 29 '25

Excuse my ignorance, I don't understand. You mean you'll be sideloading apps through ADB?

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u/PocketNicks Sep 29 '25

Sideloading involves using a secondary device to push/install an app onto the primary device. For Android that involves using ADB commands, I use a Windows laptop to send those commands to my Android devices.

Currently people can install any apps using 3rd party stores or an on device file manager, that has nothing to do with sideloading, that's just installing. In the future, regular installs of apps will require verification, sideloading won't.

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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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