Starting in August, installing APKs from unverified developers will require a new procedure called Advanced Flow. It involves enabling developer mode, rebooting the device, and waiting 24 hours with biometric verification.
After that, you choose: allow the APK installation for 7 days or indefinitely. The procedure is a one-time process and applies to all versions of Android.
Will the 24-hour wait stop you from installing APKs outside the store?
It's nice that an American company will enforce a 24-hour cooling-off period for the installation of a few 1s and 0s on a device I already own.
They wouldn't do this for the purchase of a firearm.
This biting satirical take is brought to you by a disillusioned Android user seriously thinking about switching to an iPhone. If a walled garden is inevitable I might as well go where most stuff gets developed for first.
PSA: GrapheneOS is not affected by this, one of many good reasons to use it.
If only the procedure was the same for their own store.. there's soo much crappy adware there.
Time to bite the bullet and move the phone to Linux as well.
Do you have to go through this procedure for every APK or just once?
If it's for every side loaded app, does this include updates of already installed APKs?
That would make the system actual more insecure
Advanced flow sounds like a naturopathic prostate therapy.
You'll have to pry apk installation out of my dying hands.
Whelp, looks like I'm spending my PTO week installing a new OS in my pixel and trying to make bank/payment shit work.
My entire job relies on an app not on the Play Store. I wonder how this change is going to affect business. They're hiring a lot of people like they either have a backup plan or no idea what's coming.
My boss is Gen Z and as such she's tech illiterate, so she doesn't really understand what I'm trying to say when I voice my concerns.
I am angry that this outcome makes me happy.
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