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Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

At least with something like shizuku one can effectively adb to your own phone, so even if adb became required to install non-google-approved apps on one's own phone... It will not block FOSS for long.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    and how do you enable shizuku? you need a PC for that too

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    You do not, it can connect with your own wireless debugging session. https://shizuku.rikka.app/guide/setup/#start-via-wireless-debugging Works since android 11

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Couldn't they just refuse to sign shizuku and you'd be stuck in a recursive loop of needing a pc anyways?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    Then you'd need to run adb once for the first install of fdroid/shizuku. Admittedly not great, but doing that once will not stop many OSS enthousiasts. It would widen the gap between power user and normal user considerably which also isn't great.

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