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Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project'

Open source Android app store cannot exist if Google's plans go ahead, says F-Droid board member The F-Droid project, which ...
PCMag

F-Droid Warns Google’s New Rules Could Kill Third-Party Android App Stores

Google's upcoming requirements to verify app developers threaten to 'end the F-Droid project and other free/open-source app ...

F-Droid calls for regulators to stop Google’s crackdown on sideloading

F-Droid has been around for about 15 years and is the largest source of free and open source software (FOSS) for Android.

Google's new rules could wipe out sideloading and alternative app stores, F-Droid warns

F-Droid has warned against Google's new developer verification rules, saying they could kill sideloading and alternative app stores.

Google wants to "break free app distribution", says top open source library

Essentially the anti-Play Store, F-Droid is a volunteer-run catalog of free and open-source apps that are built from source, ...

F-Droid: New developer rules could mean the end for alternative app stores

The creators of the alternative app store F-Droid say that the new developer review rules would make Google the gatekeeper ...
TechCrunch

Android’s new real-time app scanning aims to combat malicious sideloaded apps

Android’s in-built security engine Google Play Protect has a new feature that conducts a real-time analysis of an Android app’s code and blocks it from installing the app if it’s considered ...