[HN Gopher] Android developer verification: Balancing openness a...
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       Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with
       safety
        
       Author : WalterSobchak
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2026-03-19 20:19 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (android-developers.googleblog.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (android-developers.googleblog.com)
        
       | jeduardo wrote:
       | The "protective waiting period" of 24h is what kills it. For
       | people like me, who rely more and more every day on OSS apps not
       | necessarily in the Play Store, installing a new phone will mean
       | waiting a full day for almighty Google to allow me to do so. It
       | reminds me of the same annoyance of carrier phone unlocks.
       | 
       | I wonder how this will play out in the phones coming out of the
       | Motorola+GrapheneOS partnership.
        
       | goodusername wrote:
       | Although I'm slightly relieved there is a way out of Googles
       | verification system, it's still pretty wild if you compare this
       | to installing software on a Windows pc. I'm sure Microsoft is
       | heading in the same direction with Windows, but today its still
       | "only" a few confirmations to install anything.
       | 
       | This will sadly still put a major damper on adoption of open
       | source apps, while giving a false sense of security that apps
       | from the Play store are safe.
       | 
       | Years down the road, the low usage of apps installed from outside
       | the Play store will be used as an argument for removing the
       | functionality completely.
        
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