Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

In August 2025, Google announced that starting next year, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google. This registration will involve: - Paying a fee to Google - Agreeing to Google’s Terms and Conditions - Providing government identification - Uploading evidence of an app’s private signing key - Listing all current and future application identifiers

Keep Android Open

Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

Replies (6)

Vendetta 1 month ago

I hope this will also help to jump start the Linux phone era.

Max 1 month ago

A good reason to hope and support the libre phone project :)

LibrePhone

LibrePhone is a project to research freely licensed firmware for mobile phones.

Hazey 🛡️ 1 month ago

Will we be able to use those Google play apk's on GrapheneOS? I think so, because of backward compatibility. But with the Google play Integrity API, the writing is on the wall that their ultimate goal is to keep the apps for Google-authorised builds of Android only. Fuck em, they can keep their spyware apps

universo 365 graus 1 month ago

fala, mano. criei essa conta só para teste, não sei se vou ficar utilizando ela

kishka 1 month ago

this honestly seems more monopolistic. how has the eu and us governments not shut this down yet. this is stopping private sideloading, and the eu forced apple to allow sideloading.

Kortik 🇦🇲 1 month ago

When Ashigaru.rs in the Zapstore?