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.
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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
Well, that will make it easy to uninstall apps.
All my homies download from fdroid
Apps on F-Droid are not using proprietary Google APIs and won't be affected.
Okay good. That was my main concern since I opt to download the same app from F-droid over Google play if it is an option.
It's a problem if you need a fucking banking app for example, and the bank won't let you sideload it and you're running a deGoogled OS. Then you suddenly need a backup phone with the full surveillance Android just to do banking.
But the picture I saw said "get this app from play" not, "get this app from a trusted store". That to me does not read DRM.
Because the developers want to check whether you got the app from the Play Store.
If the developers don't care where you get the app from, then they won't check.
So you're saying it should allow for developers to allow exclusive installation from third party stores as well? Like amazon? Fair.
But is there anything stopping them from implementing that?
Afaik this is just a Google play API and the app checks using the API if the current user is licenced or not. Why couldn't just any other store just do the same thing?
They can. IIRC, Amazon apps would check to make sure the Amazon App Store was still installed. And I'm pretty sure Netflix games stop working when you unsubscribe from Netflix
Not really since it's opt in for the developers who chose to distribute only on the play store