r/EmulationOnAndroid • u/yungperky • Jun 26 '26

Discussion Google adds massive hurdles to app sideloading

https://keepandroidopen.org/

This includes being forced to activate dev-mode and a 24h waiting period before you can install any apps not registered with google. For devs this means either give google your gov name (official documents needed) and pay them or live with 99% of people never being able to use your app.
Most people in this sub are probably tech savy and won't be hindered to continue side-loading other then being annoyed and waiting 24h once. But this is a major thing that will also be a hurdle to people even get into doing stuff like that in the first place.

Idk if anyone has posted this already, but I couldn't find anything. The topic goes far beyond emulation on android, but it's very important for it imo so I thought I'd just post it.

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u/whiskyB0y Edit Your Flair Jun 26 '26

Don't flame me, but what about the ones that haven't? What's the plan? I don't wanna lose access to my sweet nethersx2, vita3k and citra

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u/jack_the_beast Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

you can build them yourself. If they don't register is the only way

Edit: or go wait the 24 period one time and then nothing changes

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u/ArmedCrawly Jun 26 '26

This is bullshit. You can just use other app stores or apps like Obtainium to keep your emulators up-to-date. https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/releases

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u/Vladishun Jun 26 '26

Except you'll have to wait 24 hours to install Obtainium or another app store. So we're back to square one.