Comment by JohnFen

Comment by JohnFen 6 hours ago

7 replies

> currently this is far from 'killing' non-appstore apps for most of the market.

It means that Android is no longer suitable for my own private dev projects.

gabrielhidasy 5 hours ago

If it's for your own projects, for yourself only, ADB still works without this verification.

  • JohnFen 5 hours ago

    True, although using adb requires the use of the usb port, which for some of my projects is highly impractical.

    Also, with this move, Google has made it very clear that they don't want people to have any real control over their machines -- so I'm not inclined to think that using adb to work around the problem will always be possible.

    It's fine, though. My hobby projects will continue into the future, just probably without using Android.

preisschild 5 hours ago

You can use GrapheneOS or LineageOS without the Google rootkit and continue installing any apps you want

  • erinnh 5 hours ago

    Considering both Graphene and Lineage have been complaining about google making development harder and harder for how long will that be a possibility?

  • JohnFen 5 hours ago

    My devices are not supported by either of those, sadly.