{"id":958346,"date":"2025-08-28T12:29:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=958346"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:29:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:59:47","slug":"google-to-require-developer-ids-even-for-sideloaded-android-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/28\/google-to-require-developer-ids-even-for-sideloaded-android-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to require developer IDs even for sideloaded Android apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is tightening the screws on Android security. From March 2026, developers who distribute apps outside the Play Store will need to verify their identity. That means no more anonymous APKs lurking on the web. Google says this move will make sideloading less risky, but the fallout for independent developers and app freedom isn\u2019t small.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s changing, and when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is tightening the screws on Android security. From March 2026, developers who distribute apps outside the Play Store will need to verify their identity. That means no more anonymous APKs lurking on the web. Google says this move will make sideloading less risky, but the fallout for independent developers and app freedom isn\u2019t small. What\u2019s changing, and when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}