realcaseyrollins ✝️2d ago
Okay so now #Google is saying that we'll be able to sideload apps in #Android using something called #AdvancedFlow.

This makes me feel a lot better about using it moving forward, but now I do wonder why they sort of pitched it as the end of sideloadiing.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-sideloading-unverified-apps-new-rules-3650343/

RT: https://social.teci.world/objects/7e05309d-d6bd-4633-abb1-c9333b168934
Show threadChristopher
@realcaseyrollins ✝️ I have been watching this as well. I see GrapheneOS has partnered with Motorola for creating phones with GrapheneOS installed from the factory.
I am currently running IodeOS on a Pixel6a. But I'll want to upgrade soon. ( I really want that mobile desktop mode you can only get on Pixel 8 or higher)
One of my challenges is that my work will need me to carry a stock Android because of their communication channels. But as I move away from field work to desk work, I may be able to abandon that.
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Show threadrealcaseyrollins ✝️2d ago
@christopher I use a personal phone and a work phone, I highly recommend doing that.

My previous phone was a #Google #Pixel with #LineageOS. Freakin' love it, but #Google broke #RCS support on custom ROMs, which kinda screwed up a relatively important group chat I was in (it got converted to an #RCS group chat once everyone in the group got #RCS phones), so when it broke, I went back to stock #Android.

Having #RCS support is pretty important to me, so for my phones I don't really plan on going back to #LineageOS anytime soon. Maybe if sideloading gets worse, more manufacturers will make their own spinoffs of #Android that retain both the #RCS and the sideloading features. I think internationally some phones have already been degoogled, although IDK how well they'd work with cell towers here in the #USA.