Torsten Grote1d ago

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

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@grote

If we DO go through all this bullshit to sideload or get F-droid installed... so now our phone is in developer mode. Are there going to be any authorized Google store apps that detect developer mode and go "nuh-uh"? And if that's the case, and I disable developer mode (presumeably borking our F-droid/sideload apps?), will I have to wait 24 hrs to RE-enable dev mode?

Mar 19 at 6:16pmWeb
Show threadNazo1d ago

@tezoatlipoca @grote From the look of what they're saying, yes, if you disable it it would be another 24 hours to reenable.

I wouldn't put it past them to limit how often or even how many times you can enable it.

Show threadDom 🦻1d ago
@tezoatlipoca This is what I'm looking at, too. I have several apps that will not work with developer mode on. So, I have to decide if I want sideloading enabled or my finance apps to continue to work. Bleh. Basically need two phones.
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@cinimodev

My old phone, a BB KEY2, had multiple "profiles" and they were completely seperate. i.e. "work" and "personal" and I think thats an Android thing not a BB thing. ANy way to leverage something like that? I imagine developer mode spans those.

Show threadDom 🦻21h ago
@tezoatlipoca Ya, that's how I have my phone setup and even in the work profile it detects developer mode. It's a PITA because I want to use tools like scrcpy but these finance apps detect developer mode and refuse to work. For example, with developer mode on I can't accept mobile payments through the Square app.