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  "path": "/t/google-will-require-developer-verification-to-install-android-apps-including-sideloading/33123?page=28#post_565",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-19T19:16:31.000Z",
  "site": "https://forum.f-droid.org",
  "textContent": "Google definitely seems determined to push their plans through. As a developer who has also a Google Play app I received a mail from Google a few days ago, urging me to do the developer registrations for apps outside the play store.\n\nIt’s still the same shit that will kill app repositories like f-droid. App names have to be registered together with signing keys. I see a real risk of people hijacking another developers app.\n\nFor f-droid apps could only be distributed widely if they were signed by the developer (which for f-droid’s trust system requires the build to be reproducible) **and** the developer registered the apps with Google. I’m pretty sure that number will be small.\n\nOtherwise f-droid will only be feasible on alternative Android distributions.",
  "title": "Google will require developer verification to install Android apps, including sideloading"
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