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Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
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Chinese androids are fine since they have nothing to do with Google.
xiaomi phones and tablets are still tied to google play services etc., at least in latam
Yeah in EU too
An android phone cannot have "nothing to do with google" because android is literally made by Google.
true but Huawei has this:
it still allows you to run APKs in a container like EasyAbroad or DroiTong though
Chinese ROMs in China are just AOSP with Chinese customisation. There is no Google Play Services and some vendors like Huawei are using it to transition to their own OS like Harmony OS. They're not dependent on Google in China.