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Android apps can now block sideloading and force downloads through Google Play Store
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<blockquote data-quote="Marko :)" data-source="post: 1101730" data-attributes="member: 39702"><p>From what I understand, this will only work if the package name of an app installed by sideloading exists on Google Play. If it doesn't, Google and Android have no way of recognizing installed apps. Many modded apps already change the package name because few months back, Google started linking package names to Google Play. That resulted sideloaded apps showing in Google Play under updates section and constantly showing errors as they can't update.</p><p></p><p>Example: official package name for YouTube app is [ICODE]com.google.android.youtube[/ICODE] and if you sideload modified app with the same name, it won't work (Google Play will detect it). But if you install the same app with modified package name like [ICODE]com.myownversionof.youtube[/ICODE], it will continue to work normally.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marko :), post: 1101730, member: 39702"] From what I understand, this will only work if the package name of an app installed by sideloading exists on Google Play. If it doesn't, Google and Android have no way of recognizing installed apps. Many modded apps already change the package name because few months back, Google started linking package names to Google Play. That resulted sideloaded apps showing in Google Play under updates section and constantly showing errors as they can't update. Example: official package name for YouTube app is [ICODE]com.google.android.youtube[/ICODE] and if you sideload modified app with the same name, it won't work (Google Play will detect it). But if you install the same app with modified package name like [ICODE]com.myownversionof.youtube[/ICODE], it will continue to work normally. [/QUOTE]
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