Android apps can now force Google Play download, effectively blocking sideloading
Android apps can now force Google Play download, effectively blocking sideloading
Through an updated Google API, Android app developers can now effectively block sideloading and force downloads from the Play Store.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19650358
Through an updated Google API, Android app developers can now effectively block sideloading and force downloads from the Play Store.
Isn't that a textbook monopolistic practices lawsuit?
Sounds more like DRM, since it's for developers to choose whether or not to disable side loading their apps
Not really since it's opt in for the developers who chose to distribute only on the play store
I guess the next step in piracy is to change the apk enough that it doesn’t get recognized correctly, if that’s possible? Though then everyone will have to worry about malware-ridden apps.
I think this is horrible, aside from piracy, because you may want or need to stay on an older version of an app. I have had to for devices at work that require a specific version or just an easy way to manage the device and ensure devices only got updates we approved through our MDM.
The app checks if the current user is licenced so you would have to crack the DRM to bypass it. It's not like the DRM is simply a filehash and all you have to do to avoid it is to change a byte or two.
Right in the monopoly back you go
Google made this available so they can encourage developers to use it and say "we're not a monopoly, the developers are adding the check" and see how long they can get away with it.
I wonder if the latest "play integrity fix" module could solve that problem. Its already allowing me to use bank apps on my rooted phone, so I assume it would let me sideload too if the integrity was "fixed". Google is making more problems with paid solutions.
I wonder how that will work for graphene os devices with the sandboxed Google services
This DRM is built in to Play Integrity, and GrapheneOS only passes the basic check, so apps using this DRM won't work.
Spoofing Play Integrity works with rooted phones, although it breaks from time to time.
This is going to be a pain in the ass for sometime. Almost all the apps that has sell something through google play will use that API now.
Lucky patcher will fix this.
laughs in revanced
Fucking hell just when I decided to get my first pixel after leaving Samsung
This isn't just a pixel thing tho?
Yeah but I was thinking about iOS again since I could upgrade phones. If google is going to make android like iOS why stay,...?
Edit: FYI I had a jailbroken Dopamine iPhone
The comeback of crack and medicines!