Android Developer Verification: Das Ende für Android Sideloads? - LinuxNews.de

https://linuxnews.de/android-developer-verification-das-ende-fuer-android-sideloads/

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"Expanding the number of developers in Google’s database will only make it a more frequent target of legal demands."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/with-developer-verification-googles-apple-envy-threatens-to-dismantle-androids-open-legacy/

#Google #Android #AndroidDeveloperVerification #GooglePlay #privacy #legal #developer

#FreeSoftware developers helped make #Android what it is today. #Google set the tone at the start by making it a more open ecosystem than #iOS and others. We saw #AOSP and its #OpenSource core, and we contributed code, built essential libraries and indispensable apps for the #platform because it was more #open. Now Google wants to take that way from everyone by becoming the sole arbiter of what apps run

https://keepandroidopen.org/

#FLOSS #FOSS #KeepAndroidOpen #AndroidDeveloperVerification

#Google #Chromebook has a good reputation for #security. They let any user install a #Debian container where you can then install anything from Debian, even add Flathub or directly install downloaded .deb packages. All of this without anything like the #AndroidDeveloperVerification requirements.

https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-install-and-use-linux-apps-on-a-chromebook/

#Google's #AndroidDeveloperVerification makes #Android worse than iOS because Android users are Google's product. Users attention is sold to advertisers. #Apple's business model is selling the device and integrated services, which means its users are its customers (although Apple still plays with selling their users too).

Android currently allows users to opt out of being sold by Google. Once they lock down the ecosystem, that will become less and less possible.

#DigitalMarketsAct #antitrust

We have to do what again!!!? 😮‍💨

"You need to register package names for all of the apps that you distribute on certified Android devices."

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html

#AndroidDev #GooglePlay #AndroidDeveloperVerification

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Android Developer Verification means any developer or organization that wants to publish a mobile app now has to comply with either #Apple's or #Google's Terms of Service. That means two US companies now have a say in the apps that our governments make for their citizens, around the world.

#Android #developer #AndroidDeveloperVerification
#gatekeeper #DigitalRights #DigitalSovereignity