Google's anti-competitive actions with the Play Store are the tip of the iceberg for the overall antitrust violations by Android. Google has been heavily doubling down on anti-competitive behavior with the Play Integrity API and changes to AOSP. You'll be losing a lot more cases.

Great! New onto closer cooperation with @GrapheneOS .

Sideloading freedom is more important than this. You should know it.

69 days ago, I woke up to find my 40K+ channel — Final Verdict — completely deleted. The reason? “Circumvention.” But here’s the thing: I’ve never had a channel terminated before. So I asked YouTube support which deleted channel I was supposedly “linked” to — the one I would need to “fix” to restore my own. Then something I didn’t expect happened… They told me they’re “prohibited from sharing the linked channel.” In other words — even the AI and the human reviewers don’t know what channel caused this or why. If even YouTube can’t tell me what I supposedly did wrong. How can any creator defend themselves against that? My channel was full of factual true crime documentaries — no politics, no hate, just verified court records. If this can happen to verified, rule-following creators, it can happen to anyone. If you’re experiencing the same thing, retweet + comment so this reaches real people. We deserve answers!

Focused on the future and what's next for developers. Let's get building! 🛠️

Your changes are horrible and antithetical to the original Android crew.

This is great! Now, would be awesome if you didn't restrict installing apps on my own device! (read: sideloading). I don't want to have to register my app with Google prior to out-of-band distribution. Thanks.

One thing you should do is to allow adding repos in a store like F-Droid that allows distributing apps through repositories to streamline the process of alternate stores

Sounds like a huge W

Good luck! Power to the devs.

Excited for the new vector to infect mobile phones. Thanks!

👏👏

Sounds promising!! 🎉📲🎊

How about you stop trying to tell us what we should or shouldn't do with OUR phones? If I want to unlock the bootloader or sideload apps that is MY decision on MY device! Stop trying to turn Android into Apple² ... the freedom to install/mod what we want is why we picked Android!

Stop trying to control our devices. People who are not tech-savvy and likely to install actual malware are not going to accidentally stumble into sideloading. I decide my safety, not you.

THREAD solves what Android can’t enforce. Remix lineage, IP attribution, creator payout—sealed, timestamped, integration-ready. Let’s talk. If you want a variant with more mystery, authority, or a direct call to action, I can spin that too. Just say the word.

So will you cancel your plans to ruin sideloading freedom?

Liar. Go back to India.

Apple will only ever open up if forced to by the courts. Greed is good in the Apple universe as they have demonstrated time and time again. Nothing else matters.

i hope u would have put this much energy into the ecosystem features and app quality on the play store people would be much happier

Does this mean you're going to reverse the upcoming ban on sideloaded apps?

We seem to be getting closer to a world where companies like Google and Apple are no longer forced to spend thousands of engineering hours on building stuff for billion dollar competitors. Instead, shift focus back to us… the consumer & small developers.

🙌🏽

remind Epic that they need to port Fortnite over to Linux

I believe that you are firmly against developers. You are not good for any of us

enshittification intensifies read the room, revert back to a more open source (release AOSP sources), stop this anti-sideloading non-sense once for all, stop using misleading dates for security updates you are taking all the worst possible decisions

lol get fucked

Lowering fees for Epic, right? Everyone else will pay 20% service fee + 5% processing fee. I guess we need another large gaming company to sue as Epic folded for a 21% discount.

When your kids grow up they'll know what an evil company their dad worked for

Imagine a world where developers aren't playing by Google's rules alone this could be the start of something revolutionary 🌍

Real change begins with bold collaboration and clarity

I'm still not happy until y'all stop suppressing custom rom users, play integrity basically just locking down Android by pretending for security reasons. Also delaying QPR and security update on AOSP basically make custom rom users vulnerable.

More cooperation between epic games and graphene OS please