Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store | TechCrunch
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Google will ask all Android developers to verify their identity starting next year.

Starting next year, Google will begin to verify the identities of developers distributing their apps on Android devices, not just those who distribute via the Play Store.

  • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    11 hours ago

    I don’t think it will. It hasn’t so far, despite there having been linux phones in the past, and it’s got the Windows Phone/Symbian problem where users don’t go to it because it lacks support for the apps they use, and developers don’t support it because it doesn’t have much by way of users.

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      I mean we do have the benefit of Waydroid on most Linux distros, so maybe it’ll be a Wine/proton situation where the new OS emulates Android apps in a separate container.

    • Tenkard@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      7 hours ago

      Let’s hope, gaming on Linux has become so good I un installed windows completely…

    • msage@programming.devEnglish
      101·
      9 hours ago

      That’s why we need to move to it - be the egg that becomes the first chicken.