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Re: What apps do you typically sideload & why? (so others can learn from your effort)

From Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android
Subject Re: What apps do you typically sideload & why? (so others can learn from your effort)
Date 2025-11-15 10:15 +0100
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Marion, 2025-09-03 18:26:

> In a thread discussing Google's intent to eliminate sideloading of apps
> that are written by developers who don't sign into Google servers, I
> mentioned to AJL the apps that I happen to sideload today on my Android.

It is not "sideloading" - it is just using a different source than
Google Play, like F-Droid for example.

And this will still be possible in the future - but the apps have to be
signed with a developer key which is known to Google and after you have
verified your identity as developer.

This will make stores like F-Droid impossible as they are now, since
F-Droid builds the binaries on their own based on the open source
repositories of the apps (Github, Gitlab, Codeberg etc.) but using their
own signing key.

> Hence this question:
>  Q: What apps do you typically sideload and why?

All, which I get from F-Droid and not Google Play.




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What apps do you typically sideload & why? (so others can learn from your effort) Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-09-03 16:26 +0000
  Re: What apps do you typically sideload & why? (so others can learn from your effort) Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-11-14 21:10 +0000
    Re: What apps do you typically sideload & why? (so others can learn from your effort) Jason H <jason_hindle@yahoo.com> - 2025-11-17 21:52 +0000
  Re: What apps do you typically sideload & why? (so others can learn from your effort) Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-11-15 10:15 +0100
    Re: What apps do you typically sideload & why? (so others can learn from your effort) AJL <noemail@none.com> - 2025-11-15 15:11 +0000
      Re: What apps do you typically sideload & why? (so others can learn from your effort) Qihe <Q@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-16 00:12 +0100
        Re: What apps do you typically sideload & why? (so others can learn from your effort) AJL <noemail@none.com> - 2025-11-16 00:12 +0000

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