Sideloading Android apps will become such a hassle that the practice will effectively die.

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    This mechanism, which Google calls Advanced Flow, won’t be part of the open-source element of Android, but will instead form part of the closed-source, proprietary Google Play Services platform.

    Graphene is safe for now, then, right?

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      Yes, anything without Google spy services, aka play services, will be fine.

      And even if you have Google spy services installed on graphene, it is in user mode, not admin mode, so it can’t control that.

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      Pretty sure graphene explicitly stated they would never allow it to affect them, and they don’t ship the closed source parts of google’s android stuff.

      No idea if it will affect installing google play apps on a graphene phone though