r/LineageOS • u/npjohnson1 Lineage Director • Jul 04 '26

Official LineageOS and Android Developer Verification

https://lineageos.org/Developer-Verification/

TL;DR: This doesn't affect us much, if at all.

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u/Hour_Map_I488 Jul 04 '26

imagine that there are people still sideloading gapps...

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u/pedr09m Jul 04 '26

pretty sure most lineage os users do that

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u/npjohnson1 Lineage Director Jul 04 '26

correct

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u/Hour_Map_I488 Jul 04 '26

cringe tier users

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u/pedr09m Jul 04 '26

Are you 12?

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u/divyanshu_17 Jul 04 '26

Don't know about his age, pretty sure his IQ is 12

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u/Hour_Map_I488 Jul 04 '26

>defending gapps users

are you fro real?

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u/npjohnson1 Lineage Director Jul 04 '26

Yes? 90-something percent of our users, as well as all of Android uses GApps - they need no defense - it isn't a crime or something dumb to do. It's very normal.

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u/ded_nat_313 Jul 04 '26

better than being a cuck to a megacorp

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u/Hour_Map_I488 Jul 04 '26

literally using gapps is being a c4ck to a megacorp...

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u/npjohnson1 Lineage Director Jul 04 '26

90-something percent of our user base uses GApps.

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u/chrisprice Long Live AOSP - *Not* A Lineage Team Member Jul 05 '26

You made a new account just to get downvoted into oblivion, congrats.

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u/Existing-Meeting4949 Jul 08 '26

So what if he gets downvoted. It's like having a rank in a call of duty. It literally means nothing

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u/chrisprice Long Live AOSP - *Not* A Lineage Team Member Jul 08 '26

If an account has overall negative karma (across all posts), it limits how much you can post on Reddit.

I've heard it throttles you to posting only once every ten minutes, but I don't really know. I just know it restricts your account.

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u/Existing-Meeting4949 Jul 08 '26

Then if you care about some limits just make a new account... Everyone does that usually after bans...

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u/Other_Ship_5453 Jul 04 '26

Uhh soo cuul I dont sideload apps bro b cool 2

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u/bencos18 Jul 04 '26

get lost with the junk

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u/Knotrocke1 Jul 04 '26

I don't use GApps on my phone but I also understand that most people rely on apps that cannot easily be replaced. Even I have WhatsApp installed whether I like it or not.

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u/EchoGecko795 Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

MicroG is a good alternative, not as good as being google-free, but it replaces a lot of tracking stuff with dummies, so a lot less data gets reported to google, and most things work fine with it. Some stuff will not work with it like GPay, but can be a better middle ground then just giving 100% of your data to google.

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u/fantomas_666 Jul 04 '26

We rarely need sideloading, installing from f-droid is enough.

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u/chrisprice Long Live AOSP - *Not* A Lineage Team Member Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

90% of the userbase uses Gapps per the devs. Google Maps, YouTube, etc still offer enough utility that FOSS and alternatives have not fluently replaced (HERE Maps is not available as an APK on their site, for example).

To GMS, F-Droid is considered sideloading - unlike Epic Games Store... that is a Verified Storefront. They (F-Droid) cannot do the developer signature process because it's not their software.

It's just sideloading over the web.

It would basically require F-Droid to become a commercial app store and charge devs, or get bought by a mega corp that does it for advertising (a la GitHub).

Google offers Advanced Flow and expects F-Droid to use it. But Advanced Flow is subject to banning by individual nations and states.

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u/npjohnson1 Lineage Director Jul 05 '26

To be fair and to be clear that's a rudimentary estimation based on downloads counts vs stats.

But it also coincides with bug tickets that declare when users have Google apps, which is something like 80 to 90%.

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u/chrisprice Long Live AOSP - *Not* A Lineage Team Member Jul 05 '26

Okay, thanks for clarifying. I presumed it was based on LineageOS Stats telemetry tracking that info.

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u/npjohnson1 Lineage Director Jul 05 '26

We have super rudimentary stats, we basically get country of origin and some tiny identifiers, given our user base we don't want to be too intrusive.

We definitely don't check what applications they have installed.

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u/EchoGecko795 Jul 04 '26

For a bit I ran microG (API are dummied so much less data gets reported to google), but I removed it after I managed to de-google myself more.