Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on...
by jc_dc on Saturday February 17, 2024 @08:45AM
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I’ll have to test this tomorrow. Last time I tried sideloading direct from our website I had to flip a switch in settings which came with a scare dialog.
If I remember correctly, it was a system wide setting too and didn’t allow for trusting specific sources.
If we can self distribute on Android, that will be 3 out of 4.
Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on...
by jc_dc on Sunday February 18, 2024 @06:00AM
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Yeah, still have what equates to a scare screen.
Tells you file may be harmful upon download, then you need to change a setting which is streamlined to what it was before, but still a scare screen.
Now you can allow from source…but the source isn’t the web address, it’s the initiating application eg. Chrome or Files so there’s a huge security hole with this implementation presumably on purpose to manufacture the incident they need to justify their behavior.
The only thing actually needed for feature parity with the Play Store is mostly just that F-Droid can't auto-update; the Play Store can skip the update/install prompt screen, F-Droid can't. They added install origins to APK files last year iirc, so there's a likely chance they're allowing it though.