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Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid
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this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2025
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Would this be possible to bypass by bulding an app from source and convincing android that you are a developer who is testing his program?
theoretically installing through ADB will still work. but that's very impractical, and f-droid cannot do that.
Droid-ify + Shizuku FTW
Theoretically, google could keep that workaround in the code, yes.
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Practically it will be gone in 3...2...1....