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[return to "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"]
1. abeyer+6G[view] [source] 2025-08-25 22:02:59
>>kotaKa+(OP)
Even aside from the privacy implications (which aren't trivial themselves,)

Doesn't this make it prohibitively difficult to do local builds of open source projects? It's been a long time since I've done this, but my recollection was that the process to do this was essentially you would build someone else's (the project's) package/namespace up through signing, but sign it locally with your own dev keys. A glance at the docs they've shared makes it sound like the package name essentially gets bound to an identity and you then can't sign it with another key. Am a I misremembering and/or has something changed in this process? Am I missing something?

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2. ycombi+g11[view] [source] 2025-08-26 00:45:25
>>abeyer+6G
Not just difficult - it becomes impossible. You can no longer develop any android app without Google's approval, just like iOS. The official emulators might not even work.
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