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Marco Gomiero

Software engineer, Google Developer Expert for Android, Principal Android Engineer at Airalo, and co-host of The Developers' Bakery podcast.

Oct 15, 2026

2:05
So, so yeah, folks, who of you knows about Android developer verification?
2:11
Oh, well, I, I know a bit.
2:12
Um, I don't, maybe don't know all the details because there's a lot of edge cases.
2:17
Uh, but yeah, maybe everybody here can, um, can help with all the edge cases, and we make the full picture.
2:25
But basically, the, um, long story short is that now, um, to distribute apps outside of the Google Play Store, you need to, uh, you need to also register, um, your application in a, uh, in another console, part of the Play Console, where basically you sign up, uh, in that as well.
2:45
Um, you, um, you register the, uh, ID of your application.
2:51
You com- you do an identity verification with Google, so it can verify s- um, that you're, uh, a real, uh, entity.

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20:33
Wow.

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