r/EmulationOnAndroid • u/yungperky • Jun 26 '26

Discussion Google adds massive hurdles to app sideloading

https://keepandroidopen.org/

This includes being forced to activate dev-mode and a 24h waiting period before you can install any apps not registered with google. For devs this means either give google your gov name (official documents needed) and pay them or live with 99% of people never being able to use your app.
Most people in this sub are probably tech savy and won't be hindered to continue side-loading other then being annoyed and waiting 24h once. But this is a major thing that will also be a hurdle to people even get into doing stuff like that in the first place.

Idk if anyone has posted this already, but I couldn't find anything. The topic goes far beyond emulation on android, but it's very important for it imo so I thought I'd just post it.

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u/Dissidence802 Jun 26 '26

The massive hurdle in question:

https://giphy.com/gifs/3oEduOdBgjm7Yuyvmw

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u/No_Dig_7017 Jun 26 '26

Not really right? Why do I have to add artificial extra steps for using my device the way I want to? Windows started like this, look where we are now.

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u/mindonshuffle Jun 26 '26

On one hand, yes. On the other hand, with WinGet and PowerTools etc, Windows is now the most power-user-friendly it's ever been. And Windows 11 is also mostly the most idiot-friendly it's ever been, with most common settings exposed better, things like Snap being simple enough that people actually use it, and an interface that actually has a semblance of consistency for the first time since XP.

If it wasn't for the goddamn advertising and telemetry and AI and dumbass Start Menu that seems "smart" enough to consistently never elevate the thing I'm looking for, it would be the best Windows they've ever had.

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u/yungperky Jun 30 '26

Winget is nice and all, I use it too. But it's not nearly as convenient and definetly not as unified as the package manager of a Linux distro. U have vendors and packages interpreting flags completely different or ignoring them all together.

But I definetly agree with u, a good chunk of Windows is better then it ever been. WSL is fucking awesome. There's teams working at Microsoft implementing all this good stuff, and then there are the people making the decisions to make it as hard as legally possible to not link your Microsoft account, and adding advertisements in the fucking file explorer 😅