your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦5d ago

didn’t i tell you Google is using the #sideloading ban to side-step labor issues? it’s actually worse:

google wants to #aislop and monopolize all #android apps.

so, not only they don't want to deal with developers as contract workers on their appstore ―that’s the whole point of forcing ID, to shoo away the vast majority of developers who aren’t incorporated as businesses. they now want to wipeout said developers and own all the apps.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/932364/google-ai-studio-native-android-apps-vibe-code-google-io-2026

previously
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116562329969327882

Google can now vibe-code you an Android app

Google now lets you use its web-based AI Studio vibe coding to build native Android apps. The feature was announced at Google I/O 2026.

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@blogdiva Once again for all the hackers in the room:

WE NEED TO HARD FORK ANDROID RIGHT GODDAMN NOW AND DE-GOOGLE THE ENTIRE FUCKING ECOSYSTEM OF IT.

May 19 at 7:42pmWeb
Show threadWoozle Hypertwin5d ago

@lambdacalculus @blogdiva

I think this exists, possibly in the plural? I think the main obstacle is that users of existing hardware need to figure out how to root their devices (not always possible), and the Google version is still (as I understand it) lurking deep in the firmware.

(I am not an authoritative source on this, and could definitely be wrong about everything, possibly all the time*.)

(* originally typoed as "itme", which seems entirely appropriate.)