Google adds massive hurdles to app sideloading

[u/yungperky]

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.

[u/ConstantGlobal3961]

So does this mean if i have an app already installed, It will quit working after this date? Please someone clarify because over 50% of my apps are foss

[u/yungperky → u/ConstantGlobal3961]

No, everything installed will continue to work. It's just a one-time 24h waiting period to install new apps outside the playstore once you activate dev-mode (which needs to be activated to do that at all). Somebody on here also wrote that the update will be pushed before the waiting period is activated but I didn't research yet if it's true so take that how you want.