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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
"""

https://keepandroidopen.org/

#FuckGoogle #KeepAndroidOpen

Keep Android Open

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

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He looks like he's [REDACTED]™21h ago

@alice Last i heard this changed to allowing unverified developers to keep making apps and allowing them to be installed but putting in a one-time Brady Bill "wait period" for installing them

edit: yeah it's right there on the page and as stupid as it is (i get it, middle ground and such), i actually don't like this group's final line here:

"Until Google provides a shipping implementation that can be independently verified, our position remains unchanged: all apps from non-
registered developers will be blocked once their lockdown goes into effect in September 2026."

i mean they've specifically said they won't block apps so it's a little facetious of this group to scream "our position remains unchanged: *ALL APPS WILL BE BLOCKED*".

ruins credibility, moves goalposts.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/897420/android-sideloading-unverified-developers-process

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Li ~ Crystal System

@quasirealsmiths @alice android apps targeting less than android 6 now cannot be installed on android 14+, however they can with the adb flag --bypass-low-target-sdk-block this is also a hard block on all old apps even if technically you can bypass it its the same here, their still blocking access even if you can jump through a thousand hoops ..