{"id":998892,"date":"2026-03-21T12:22:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998892"},"modified":"2026-03-21T12:22:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:52:52","slug":"google-adds-24-hour-waiting-period-to-android-app-sideloading-heres-what-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/21\/google-adds-24-hour-waiting-period-to-android-app-sideloading-heres-what-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Google adds 24-hour waiting period to Android app sideloading: Here&#8217;s what changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has detailed its new &#8220;advanced flow&#8221; for sideloading apps on Android\u2014and as promised, it is high-friction. Starting August 2026, anyone who wants to install apps from unverified developers will need to go through a one-time, multi-step process that includes a mandatory 24-hour wait before a single APK can touch their device.<\/p>\n<p>The process begins with enabling developer mode\u2014the classic tap-the-build-number-seven-times routine\u2014followed by a prompt asking whether someone is coaching you into disabling your security settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has detailed its new &#8220;advanced flow&#8221; for sideloading apps on Android\u2014and as promised, it is high-friction. Starting August 2026, anyone who wants to install apps from unverified developers will need to go through a one-time, multi-step process that includes a mandatory 24-hour wait before a single APK can touch their device. The process begins with enabling developer mode\u2014the classic tap-the-build-number-seven-times routine\u2014followed by a prompt asking whether someone is coaching you into disabling your security settings.<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998892","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=998892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}