- Google is putting together its framework for Android developer verification, connecting dev names to even sideloaded apps.
- Recent additions to the Android SDK offer a little insight into how the system may ultimately operate.
- One variable suggests that users may not be able to sideload even verified apps without an active network connection.
“Sideloading” is such a silly term
It is called installing apps
They are modeling this after Apple’s technical response to being forced to allow other app stores.
Would it shock you to learn that Apple revoked the certificates of developers who published apps they didn’t like on other app stores e.g. torrent client?
Google will do the same exact thing with apps that impact the profitability of their native services e.g. Newpipe.
My next phone is very likely to be tbe most basic phone I can buy. If I can’t use my pc-priced, pc-spec device as the PC it is, I have no use for it.
One variable suggests that users may not be able to sideload even verified apps without an active network connection.
Called it.
I was about to buy a new phone before this came out. If this is enforced in any way in the EU, I’ll just get a second one with good ROM support or a Linux one
So… Linux phone when, then?
This is were I would like to move. But not really a good option. I have a Linux tablet, desktop, and server but no phone hardware yet that is good for daily use.
List of all Linux phones https://linmob.net/resources/#smartphones
Next gen Jolla Phone https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/next-gen-jolla-phone/23882I’m surprised the 3.5mm and repairability didn’t make it to the top place. Looks like Apple has won once again in imposing their will in the phone market.
On a side note, how is Sailfish OS on the community version (or anyway, the one version that allows you to download Google Play apps)? Is it usable in the day-to-day life?
Has anyone here tried OpenHarmony ? An opensource implementation of Huawei’s HarmonyOS which is based on LiteOS ??
We also need a unified effort to turn android devices into linux devices.
why should we use openharmony if there’s AOSP? we need more hands, but that’s better put on the existing project
OpenHarmony exists too you know & it’s being actively maintained. That or We maintain AOSP ourselves.
Reminder OpenHarmony is the AOSP equivalent to HarmonyOS & is maintained by the OpenAtom foundation
ok. but isn’t HarmonyOS as a whole a lot younger? why is it a better choice?
Because it’s not being railroaded by it’s owner unlike Android
we have platforms like that already. several mobile linux distributions, sailfish, whatever. what is the advantage of harmony os? android (as in AOSP) is much more mature all around, the bad parts need to be patched out but then its pretty good. why choose harmony os and leave behind android instead?
Oh my god this person. If google completely closed up Android, then you’d need a mobile friendly OS alternative. I’m fine with linux, but it’s gonna take a while to catch up. So meanwhile… get it ?
Oh my god this person
oh my god! calm down, maybe look at who other people agree with more in this thread.
If google completely closed up Android
that’s not possible, because the source code is already publicly available. they can not delete it from the hard drives of custom rom developers.
However if google finished closing up AOSP, what that would mean is no more future development coming from google. that’s the same with other projects, including harmony: google does not submit patches there either.
you still did not answer how is harmony os a better option than AOSP
This really could be a massive problem. Articles and posts suggesting that it will only ever affect a small number of users are short-sighted, at best.
If google can refuse apps by unauthorised developers, and the criteria for authorisation shifts in the way that everything else seems to shift, that could mean a wide array of apps become effectively ‘blocked’.
Right now, we’re all rightly worried about losing things like revanced. But what about when your local fascist government puts pressure on google to block the developer behind an app you like/love/need, because they made a joke about some gobshite getting shot?
It’s bad enough that apple has always been this way, I’m saying that as a long term apple user. We desperately don’t need the only current mainstream alternative going that way, too.
