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📢 Important update on sideloading on Android

It’s of course here to stay. The team’s been listening carefully to feedback from power users who want a way (apart from ADB) to install apps that don’t go through developer verification.

Today, we have more details on the advanced flow that gives you this option.

Read the post👇 for more info

https://goo.gle/advance-flow

Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

Android Developers Blog

Stefan Lengfeld Mar 10

jbz Mar 10

🇪🇺 Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles

“With UnifiedAttestation, we are creating a transparent and trustworthy procedure for security checks that developers and app publishers can rely on equally. This removes the last hurdle for the use of alternative mobile operating systems,”

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Paying-without-Google-New-consortium-wants-to-remove-custom-ROM-hurdles-11204037.html

#degoogle #digitalsovereignty #eu #opensource #android

Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles

Using banking and payment apps on Android smartphones with custom ROMs is a problem: A European industry consortium now wants to change that.

heise online

Stefan Lengfeld Mar 7

aosp-devs

Mar 7

Welcome to the fourteenth aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community. See https://aosp-devs.org/newsletter/2026-february.html

We are back to normal, 6 days too late without excuses.

aosp-devs.org February newsletter

Creating a community for AOSP developers

aosp-devs.org

Stefan Lengfeld Mar 3

tante Mar 3

The answer to problems in sociotechnical systems is not always "more software", "better software" or "open source software".
A lot of the time the best solution is _less software_ and sometimes even _no software_.

Stefan Lengfeld Mar 1

#didit moved one repo to codeberg and added a visible link in a pinned repo to my codeberg account from github: https://github.com/lengfeld/codeberg-see-also

Stefan Lengfeld Feb 28

Keep Android Open Feb 27

Remember the long-since-expunged Android philosophy? "We also wanted to make sure there was no central point of failure, where one industry player could restrict or control the innovations of any other." Because the Wayback Machine remembers (https://web.archive.org/web/20140702115900/https://source.android.com/source/index.html)…

Stefan Lengfeld Feb 28

Mishaal Rahman Feb 27

Hello from Google 😁!

After over 10 years writing about Android, I'm SO excited to finally be ... working for Android!

Just as exciting is that my role includes community engagement, so I'll still be connected to the Android community I love and hope to help people learn to ♥️ Android as much as I do.

How am I gonna do that? You'll be hearing much more from me in the near future about these efforts, so stay tuned!

Stefan Lengfeld Feb 23

Some mockk+android experts out there? I found a strange performance issue with a mock call in our codebase. Mocking AudioManager.requestAudioFocus() takes 800ms in integration tests/on real devices. What? Is mocking O(n) in the terms of class/function or something?
Code: https://codeberg.org/lengfeld/android-app-mockk-performance

Stefan Lengfeld Feb 19

I love #perfetto . The best performance inspection tool I know. Here is another example by Google/Android engineers, what you can do with it: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/02/under-hood-android-17s-lock-free.html

Under the hood: Android 17’s lock-free MessageQueue

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

Android Developers Blog

Stefan Lengfeld Feb 12

daniel:// stenberg://Feb 12

GitHub: "Here’s what we plan to do for maintainers."

https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/welcome-to-the-eternal-september-of-open-source-heres-what-we-plan-to-do-for-maintainers/

Welcome to the Eternal September of open source. Here's what we plan to do for maintainers.

As contribution friction drops, maintainers are adapting with new trust signals, triage approaches, and community-led solutions.

The GitHub Blog

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