- cross-posted to:
- opensource@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- opensource@programming.dev
Keep Android Open
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
Sign the open letter. And get active to help oppose the enactment of the policy in other ways listed on the website. Are there any more ways to oppose this?
Google can’t even keep its play store free of malware as evidenced by my mother getting popup malware every two weeks from ads on some showopera app she got from the play store, but sure enforcing their malware ridden play store on us will surely protect us.
i use my phone for drawing with its inbuilt stylus, so swapping to anything else will probably disable that feature for me.