Mishaal Rahman4d ago

📣Important clarifications on the new advanced flow for sideloading on Android!

1) It is a one-time process. Once you go through it, you can choose to allow installing unregistered apps indefinitely.

2) ADB installs are not affected. The waiting period does not apply to app installs via ADB.

3) It's my understanding that you don't have to keep developer options enabled after you enable the advanced flow. Once you make the change on your device, it's enabled...

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@MishaalRahman

Once you go through it, you can choose to allow installing unregistered apps indefinitely.

So, the user enables installing unregistered apps just for a single app. Then they forget about it and can easily install malware as before. What's even the point of these safeguards?

Mar 19 at 6:30pmWeb
Show threadMishaal Rahman4d ago

@kttrickster In our blog post/video, we mentioned that, once you've gone through the advanced flow and allowed installing unregistered apps, "for safety, you’ll still see a warning that the app is from an unverified developer..." whenever you go to install one.

I don't have any additional information to share on what this warning looks like, but there will be one!

Show threadTrickster4d ago
@MishaalRahman Currently this looks like just a warning message that could be easily skipped... The whole point of that "advanced flow" was to avoid malicious actors to guide through installing malware unconsciously. But after that it becomes useless, as only simple warning messages will appear. Ok, we'll see how it's going to look at the end.