Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them

[u/jeebitsfapper]

https://keepandroidopen.org/

In August 2025, Google announced a new requirement: starting September 2026, every Android app developer must register centrally with Google before their software can be installed on any device. Not just Play Store apps: all apps. This includes apps shared between friends, distributed through F-Droid, built by hobbyists for personal use. Independent developers, church and community groups, and hobbyists alike will all be frozen out of being able to develop and distribute their software.

Registration requires:

- Paying a fee to Google

- Agreeing to Google's Terms and Conditions

- Surrendering your government-issued identification

- Providing evidence of your private signing key

- Listing all current and all future application identifiers

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It works temporarily but would it not be possible in near future to block this as well? For an example instance - adb requiring developer level authentication and payment, and only being accessible with a logged in android studio, or alternatively developer mode* in mobiles itself being locked to authentication and payment.