News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs. Parent comment

Re:Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs by alex3305 on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @03:24PM (#31426619)
According to the article this seems allowed:

> [...] This restriction does not apply to code that runs in a virtual machine or an interpreter where either provides indirect access to Android APIs (such as JavaScript in a webview or browser).

Also blocking Firefox to install an APK would be anti-competitive, because Google's own Chrome also allows APK installations.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs by throwaway67743 on Thursday May 19, 2022 @08:16AM (#31433522)
They (like most big tech) don't care because they know nothing will ever be done about it
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs by forgotpwd16 on Thursday May 19, 2022 @06:16AM (#31432687)
>Google's own Chrome also allows APK installations

For the time being.

[ Parent | on HN ]