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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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Google sideloading and F-droid prospects (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by Korkki@lemmy.ml to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml
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What is the future of F-Droid and apps it distributes now that Google is hell bent on stopping sideloading and forcing developers to register at google? A large portion of what F-droid distributes are apps that are not at Google's good graces.

https://hackaday.com/2025/08/26/google-will-require-developer-verification-even-for-sideloading/

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"unauthorized" my ass, though.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tell me about it.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

if the phone is yours, you are the only one who should "authorize" apps to be installed or not.

its their way of baking in their control in the words we use to describe it. sideloading means installing apps from outside google's ecosystem, but has a negative "unofficially hacking apps in" connotation to it.