The app ID is com.google.android.verifier, which I assume will be used for the upcoming developer verification program for installing 3rd party apps.
Starting September 30, developers (signing authors) need to be verified from Google to distribute apps in the following app stores:
- Google Play Store
- Honor App Market
- OPPO App Market
- Samsung Galaxy Store
- Transsion Palm Store
- vivo V-Appstore and
- Xiaomi GetApps
only in the countries of Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.
F-Droid is not included for this time.
It is planned to be rolled out globally across all markets/app stores by January of 2027.
Relevant sources:
https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides
https://keepandroidopen.org/
I used App Manager (io.github.muntashirakon.AppManager) for the screenshot; you can use your regular ‘Installed Apps’/‘Apps’ menu to see if it’s been rolled out automatically for you as well.
edit: First link was originally a typo, my bad. Fixed it.
How-To:
Source:
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-advanced-flow-sideloading-rollout-begins-3700073/
https://www.pocket-lint.com/android-new-sideloading-option/
That’s some pretty big hurdles to be honest, just a reminder of how sketchy Google is these days.
Less issue for me than Apple lol.
You can always (for now) go to LineageOS or GrapheneOS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Every shift away from open Android that users accept emboldens Google to lock it down further.
Switching from Android to Apple is really smart lol.
Why would you even switch from a pretty much open system to a fully closed one (even with the things the EU forces Apple to do)?
(This questions excludes Linux OSs on smartphones)
Apple is of course still far worse, but users shouldn’t be accepting Google’s changes to Android without complaint.
Not if you want your banking app to work, or some other apps that require you to have the “certified” os on your phone. If I have to stop using these apps, I might as well go back to a dumbphone.
Yep, and my bank just announced that they’re getting rid of the web portal at the end of the year. It’s app only from then on. And their app already didn’t work on my rooted phone. This will just be a more constraining restriction.
I can change banks, but it’s a sign of things to come.
We have the power to say no, not just accept crap.
Web browsers exist still, though some particularly shitty sites don’t even have a mobile web view these days.
Banking apps i have seen require you to use their phone apps
I would rather stop using apps that require this bullshit than give up the literal pocket computer that’s powerful enough to do damn near whatever I want with it. I make my phone my bitch and I intend to keep it that way.
Banking apps that require this aren’t worthy of being installed. Just use their website. Banks still have websites.
Yeah, one of these apps is needed to log on into government websites to do my taxes and communicate with different agencies. It is possible to do without, but not practical.
The only govt website that requires extra security in the US is the IRS, but it’s through ID.me. I have my token for that on the Aegis authenticator app (FOSS, F-Droid, can be used on rooted/“insecure” devices).
They ask to enter a pin on the application to unlock the web site. I may have to leave my bank…
And what if someone doesn’t use the app? Can you decouple your bank account from the app?
Have to go in the phsysocal agency to do some operation like sending monney and you can’t set reccuring transactions…
They don’t have a normal-ass website that can handle all of that? Sounds incredibly inconvenient.
Luckily, I don’t have any day-to-day services that require I use an app.
My bank currently works but in the past it hasnt and the website worked just fine for the period of time the app didnt work.
I used Magisk for that on LineageOS
You don’t “use Magisk” to do that. Magisk only provides a path to do so.
What modules are you using to achieve this?
My Bank works even without microG or some other Google supplement. It does show a warning on the initial boot that it might not, but it does. They also do not require to have the app, but its still nice to have.
After going through both my Galaxy 24U and Pixel Tablet initially, I wasn’t seeing the option (was looking for the old “Install from unknown sources” which is in a different location (and per app toggles). I went back and manually disabled and enabled the “Android Developer Verifier” app and then saw the option for “Apps from unverified developers” show up. Then was able to follow the steps (very glad you provided that second source which is what led me to what I did).
So I guess if you don’t see it. First search in your apps that the verifier app is present. If it is, then go into the app info for it and toggle disable and then enable. Willing to accept that maybe I was just blind to it due to the old way of sideloading that made me miss it in Developer Options. But for sure saw it after the toggles. Now I just need to remember to go back tomorrow to set the “indefinitely” option. Curious if this will allow Play Protect to not try to yeet apps if PP is turned back on. I had to turn it off a couple months ago because it kept flagging SyncThing-Fork installed from F-Droid trying to trick me into uninstalling it (which was weird that was the only app it freaked out about out of all the third-party store and Obtainium apps).
Only for stock android, right?
Who knows until it drops.
Not a user of graphene and it was a bit ago with LineageOS.