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"""
Google announced that as of September 2026, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google.

This registration will involve:

- Paying a fee to Google
- Agreeing to Google’s Terms and Conditions
- Providing government identification
- Uploading evidence of the developer’s private signing key
- Listing all current and future application identifiers
"""

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Keep Android Open

Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

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Reid

20h ago

@alice the requirement to upload the private key is particularly sketchy because what other reason is there than to distribute tampered APKs, probably for the purpose of "law enforcement" that will 1000% be done only with a warrant

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Martin Rust 17h ago

@reiddragon @alice
The web page and the toot say "evidence of the developer’s private signing key" - what does "evidence" mean?

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Khleedril 13h ago

@martinrust @reiddragon @alice I would have thought that it meant you can prove you have the private key by signing a message back to Google with it, and then they verify by using the public key to decrypt.

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Reid

@khleedril @martinrust @alice quite frankly I don't even know how it works anymore. Google has never been clear about it, and an earlier version of it made it sound like Google would hand out keys like a CA hands SSL certs for "verified" developers.