Completely unacceptable. Do away with this horseshit entirely or I'm out.

It's so weird that they don't take comments on the android developer blog post... Almost like they think it'll be hugely unpopular.

So it needs developer mode huh, plenty of apps dont work with that on, truly awful even if i can turn it back off after.

Even if it's only a thing that needs to be done once: Either the one-day delay has to go, or Google.

There's nothing redeeming about their plans.

I use fdroid and aurora stores but lately I'm having this message for apps installed from aurora that are also available in play store.

Is this a thing enforced by android or by the apps? Is there a way to circumvent it?

google doing their best to make me move to a different platform for my next phone.

anybody know of other options?

How about a 24 hour waiting period for me to harden my OS before Google slurps up all my data.

Motorola has Graphene OS soon.

This would make sense if google play store wasnt full of malware. Scammers dont need you to sideload malicious apps they just get you to download it from the play store.

To those who think it is a fair compromise: It is not.

Android already had one layer of this shit before. When installid freshly dowloaded apk, android would prompt you to confirm that the source of the apk is trusted. This was not like this before. Before you'd just install apk.

And I agree to a certain amount. But thing is, it was added for no specific reason. People who install apks form outside source, will keep doing it and they 99% of the time know what they are doing or being told to do so by someone who knows what they are doing.

Adding another layer to this wont solve the problem, except make users annoyed for 24h wait time. And this is only adding 1 layer now. Who the fuck knows what is going to be 1 year later. 5 years later?

Google is the epitome of living long enough to become the villain.