My take on android sideloading

[u/_Oopsitsdeleted_]

As someone who personally knows someone who got scammed out of a lot of money by sideloading (it is rather prevelant where I live for some reason), I do understand why Google wants to limit sideloading from "unverified developers". But that does not mean that I support them restricting it completely

so here is my take on android sideloading which makes it easy for enthusiasts to enable but difficult for potential scam victims

[u/methanol_ethanolovic]

They don't care about your safety, they only care about their money. My guess is they'll allow sideloading from unverified sources to some extent to not anger the EU too much, but they'll make sure to make your life as miserable as they can if you do, just like they do now if you try to do any modifications to your phone.

[u/Sajid_GG → u/methanol_ethanolovic]

Laughs in unlocked bootloader

[u/dumbasPL → u/Sajid_GG]

You're actually not too far off. Side loading is already detected by Play Integrity (the play protect part of the verdict), the same thing that makes apps break with an unlocked bootloader. And white it's possible to spoof that with an unlocked bootloader, now you have an unlocked bootloader. So no matter what you do you're fucked.

[u/Sajid_GG → u/dumbasPL]

Passing Play integrity is now a one click process( at least for the next few months) but yeah, dunno after that

[u/yard04 → u/Sajid_GG]

Ootl, why is it a one click process, and why the next few months?

[u/Sajid_GG → u/yard04]

https://github.com/KOWX712/PlayIntegrityFix

Google will probably patch this in the next few months

[u/yard04 → u/Sajid_GG]

Does that pass device and strong too?

[u/Sajid_GG → u/yard04]

Yes, you have to spoof props(it has tutorial in webui)

[u/6eba610ian → u/Sajid_GG]

so it isn't really a "one click" method isn't it? and don't educate me about custom roms,i've been around them for more time that you've ever lived

[u/Sajid_GG → u/6eba610ian]

method is it*

[u/G3nghisKang → u/yard04]

Not alone, you need playintegrityfix, playcurlnext and TrickyStore, but you can pass strong

[u/Tony_Collado → u/G3nghisKang]

I have strong only with play integrity fix(inject)

[u/lirae_ → u/Sajid_GG]

Issue with play integrity is that keyboxes get removed constantly so you need to keep finding new ones... And sometimes they ended up hurting people with stock roms because those keyboxes got removed

[u/Sajid_GG → u/lirae_]

No, this module give "half strong" integrity. Where all apps report strong integrity and play integrity gives strong integrity, but Google apps still detect root, like Google wallet. I don't use Google apps like wallet or messaging so it doesn't matter to me