F-DroidSep 29

Broken links aside (fix incoming), #FDroid raises the case against the #Google developer forced registration once again.

We'll skip the small talk, go read, and better yet, spread this wide and far: https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html so people are made aware, actions can be taken and #Android is kept truly open!

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

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@fdroidorg Did they already announce if and how they want to force phone vendors to leave that requirement in *their* versions of Android?

If they only lose the title of “certified Android device” but everything else still works, it should be possible to demand from the vendors that they … just undo that for their flavours of Android.

Or is “certified Android device” the requirement imposed by *other* apps to be installable (the thing that makes a lot of banking apps not work on custom ROMs)?

Surely hope that @Fairphone (inactive on the fediverse?) will still allow me to run F-Droid irrespective if Google takes that plan back or not.

Sep 29 at 2:46pmWeb
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@HeptaSean @Fairphone Vendors want to be certified to be able to carry Google apps (Youtube, Maps, Play, etc), they'll not endanger that. As the terms are not clear (does Google enforce signature blocking for certification purposes? Is the vendor allowed to add a toggle? Can #EU ask all vendors that want to sell to Europeans to add a toggle? etc) we can't know.