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As Android developer verification gets ready to go, a new reason to be worried
An Android SDK update raises questions about the impact of developer verification on users' ability to sideload apps when offline.
For fans of open platforms, that’s resulted in some spicy takes ( my own included), but in the weeks since the news first broke we’ve learned a little more about Google’s plans for implementing this program — and hearing about some critical workarounds, like maintaining the ability to sideload unverified apps over a connection to another device running ADB (the Android Debug Bridge). There, they’ve spotted some of the groundwork Google’s been laying in the Android SDK (not the AOSP, as claimed in that thread) to support developer verification. While it’s easy enough to verify something like a cryptographic signature locally, Android might want to prevent you from installing an app if it can’t get online and check if the name is on just such a no-no list.
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