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Meanwhile, with Google's upcoming restrictions on 'sideloading' (I.E. installing apps that haven't registered with Google, including paying them a fee and providing your government ID: see more at https://keepandroidopen.org/), soon the only way for users running Android to install apps that Big Brother Google hasn't approved will be... enabling Developer Mode.
Enabling Developer Mode of course requires a 24-hour waiting period, so you can't just turn it off real quick to use this app and then back on, either. (EDIT: Apparently the 24-hour waiting period only applies to the first time enabling developer mode. The rest of my concerns stand, though.)
If apps refusing to run in developer mode is or becomes a widespread thing...well, it ain't good. And making it so that important publicly funded apps can't run in developer mode would be an easy thing for Google to lobby for...
Yeah this has potential for massive pain.
The 24-hour wait is supposed to be a "one-time" restriction. After you do it once, you should be able to instantly go back-and-forth if needed.
TY, I wasn't aware of that. That makes it slightly better, though still isn't great.