Google will soon be requiring android app developers to pay $25 to register their governments ids to make apps outside of the play store.
The package (com.google.android.verifier) will be introduced on devices running Android 8 or higher, granting Google the ability to block the installation of unverified apps.
Complete your migration plans before Google puts up the barbed wire making it much harder to leave.
The alternatives are Graphene, Calyx, Sailfish, FuriOS, Ubuntu Touch and Postmarket OS.
95 days: 30 September 2026: Indonesia, Brazil, Thailand and Singapore.
188 days: 2027: Globally.
i’ve been using lineageos with microg and root (used to be magisk, but switched to kernelsu which seems much more sensible), and it frankly just seems like the best smartphone experience possible these days.