cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/45277582

Opening my weather app this morning I was greeted by this warning:

Google has announced that, starting in 2026/2027, all apps on certified Android devices will require the developer to submit personal identity details directly to Google. Since the developers of this app do not agree to this requirement, this app will no longer work on certified Android devices after that time.

It’s the first time I hear about this, seems to be about:

Tech crunch article from august, “google will require developer verification for android apps outside the play store”

Cirrus app: Github

Was this a big thing I somehow missed? I hope more devs will follow suit.

  • Tetsuo@jlai.luEnglish
    14·
    1 day ago

    As far as I know F-Droid are adament about builds being easily to reproduce.

    They are the only alternative market that worked for hours for free to come up with a build system that let’s you get the same APK with every builds.

    So basically you are accusing an alt market that makes it a point that you can recreate any APK on their market. They are the only actually making sure you can check there is nothing “injected” in an APK.