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Google is Killing Open Source Android Apps (Here's Why) (techlore.tv)
submitted 4 months ago by ExtremeDullard@piefed.social to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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Fuck Google with a stiff wire brush.

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[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago

Couldn't f droid in theory request their own key?

This is a terrible situation, but surviving for a few more years isn't a bad idea

[-] ISOmorph@feddit.org 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The f-droid team spoke to that in a recent post. They can't do that for legal reasons. The post basically said that if that change isn't stopped on a government level there's no way for them to continue working. They didn't mention roms.

Edit for the link: https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago

Here's the relevant quote:

The F-Droid project cannot require that developers register their apps through Google, but at the same time, we cannot “take over” the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications.

I think that last sentence is saying that it would work, if developers decided to exclusively distribute to F-Droid and effectively gave up control over the app to the F-Droid team.

I'm thinking there might be a possibility to register the same app under two different identifiers, one controlled by F-Droid, the other by developer.
But yeah, this makes some things more complex and might be deemed malicious behaviour by Google.

this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2025
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