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Re:Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is comin... by siddheshgunjal on Sunday January 25, 2026 @11:45PM (#46761968)
So many amazing open-source developers just don't want to publish their app to app store because of the fees. On android, this is way way easier. If google keeps making this difficult, then i'll just have to switch to linux phone
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Re:Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is comin... by leetnewb on Monday January 26, 2026 @07:03AM (#46764629)
Probably not exclusive to open source, but at least some projects are running into issues publishing to the Play Store with little/no explanation.
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