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Did we win? Google to continue to allow side loading
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this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2026
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To call the install of apps of your choice as «sideloading», means that they have won.
That's the name of the command, though. It's
adb sideload. Anything else is installing.That's not even true. If you install an app through adb, the command is
adb install <path/to/app.apk>adb sideload is for installing OTA packages
Source: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/modules/adb/+/refs/heads/master/docs/user/adb.1.md