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Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:
* enable developer options
* confirm that you are not tricked
* restart phone and re-authenticate
* wait one day
* confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
* decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
* confirm that you accept the risks
* enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this
https://goo.gle/advance-flow
enable developer options
confirm that you are not tricked
restart phone and re-authenticate
wait one day
confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
confirm that you accept the risks
enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this
10Mins sounds good. I agree ADB powered alternatives will exist. But, this is too much friction and I’m speaking as a power user who uses fdroid, shizuku, termux and all sorts of power user apps.
It will be tedious when I want to share an awesome open source app with someone who will think it is unsafe because android would warn and make you follow these steps to install “unverified apps”. Many of those friends will find even installing fdroid for updates bloat.
If I ask them to follow this, they would rather give up and not bother. This will be a huge blow to adoption of open source android apps.
10Mins sounds good. I agree ADB powered alternatives will exist. But, this is too much friction and I’m speaking as a power user who uses fdroid, shizuku, termux and all sorts of power user apps.
It will be tedious when I want to share an awesome open source app with someone who will think it is unsafe because android would warn and make you follow these steps to install “unverified apps”. Many of those friends will find even installing fdroid for updates bloat.
If I ask them to follow this, they would rather give up and not bother. This will be a huge blow to adoption of open source android apps.