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Opening my weather app this morning I was greeted by this warning:

Google has announced that, starting in 2026/2027, all apps on certified Android devices will require the developer to submit personal identity details directly to Google. Since the developers of this app do not agree to this requirement, this app will no longer work on certified Android devices after that time.

It's the first time I hear about this, seems to be about:

Tech crunch article from august, "google will require developer verification for android apps outside the play store"

Cirrus app: Github

Was this a big thing I somehow missed? I hope more devs will follow suit.

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[–] pibfyhd7g57gd5u64f@piefed.social 53 points 6 days ago (4 children)
[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 6 days ago (2 children)

e/OS too, if Graphene fails or isn't available. Or Murena.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Murena has had questionable policies....

[–] Deckname@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And what policies would that be?

[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 days ago

Murena is the company developing/e/os

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

are you kidding? only available for google phones. are we supposed to give money to google for this situation?

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I think they are looking to partner with a phone manufacturer to move graphene platform to other brand of phones.

Specially since it's unlikely that google pixels will keep providing the spec info and openness that GOS need to work.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

Well yeah, since device trees are no longer available going forward from Google, they'd be dead in the water otherwise.

[–] muix@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 6 days ago

LineageOS has good support for other devices

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

graphene only works on a very limited set of devices though

[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

Pixels. That's it.

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Will graphene be able to avoid this?

[–] Akip@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Well for this case in particular yes, the dev will continue to develop the app on f-droid, the platform as a whole takes a hit through this though, so who knows how long they will continue out of goodwill.

edit: Play integrity already is problematic on GrapheneOS

The largest medicare provider in germany states legislative reasons they won't support other 3rd party OS'

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 2 points 6 days ago

Thanks. This really is a big deal.

[–] berty@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yes, all custom ROMs without Play Protect won't be affected.