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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> It’s never explained what this collection of app icons quite represents. A disorganized app you tossed together by sideloading? A face that’s frowning because it’s rolling down a bar held up by app icons? It’s weird, but not quite evocative. (credit: linuxct\/hydra<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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You might sideload an Android app, or manually install its APK package, if you’re using a custom version of Android that doesn’t include Google’s Play Store. Alternately, the app might be experimental, under development, or perhaps no longer maintained and offered by its developer. Until now, the existence of sideload-ready APKs on the web was something that seemed to be tolerated, if warned against, by Google.<\/p>\n

This quiet standstill is being shaken up by a new feature in Google’s Play Integrity API. As reported by Android Authority<\/a>, developer tools to push “remediation” dialogs during sideloading debuted<\/a> at Google’s I\/O conference in May, have begun showing up on users’ phones. Sideloaders of apps from the British shop Tesco<\/a>, fandom app BeyBlade X<\/a>, and ChatGPT<\/a> have reported “Get this app from Play” prompts, which cannot be worked around. An Android gaming handheld user encountered a similarly worded prompt from Diablo Immortal<\/em><\/a> on their device three months ago.<\/p>\n

Google’s Play Integrity API is how apps have previously blocked access when loaded onto phones that are in some way modified from a stock OS with all Google Play integrations intact. Recently, a popular two-factor authentication app blocked access on rooted phones<\/a>, including the security-minded GrapheneOS. Apps can call the Play Integrity API and get back an “integrity verdict,” relaying if the phone has a “trustworthy” software environment, has Google Play Protect enabled, and passes other software checks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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