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Paolo Rotolo
Android Engineer at N26 in Berlin, co-host of The Developers' Bakery podcast and open source contributor.
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Oct 15, 2026
Android developer verification and the future of sideloading
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13:09Paolo RotoloGUEST
Uh, I'm a power user as well, but, uh, I mean, for us, if you really want to install an app, uh, you can just ADB sideload it and, or wait a day.
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13:20Paolo RotoloGUEST
Uh, but like the main issue that I see, uh, and the main issue also with, with that campaign that the campaign supports is that Google now has power of choosing which developers are allowed to publish apps, not only in the Google Play Store, but also in alternative stores.
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13:37Paolo RotoloGUEST
And, uh, I read so many horror stories on, uh, on Reddit, on other forums online of Google mistakenly banning developers-
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16:28Paolo RotoloGUEST
Even, even with this verification, this, um, verification, they've been sending, uh, warnings since, I guess, half a year, and it's not, uh...