The app ID is com.google.android.verifier, which I assume will be used for the upcoming developer verification program for installing 3rd party apps.
Starting September 30, developers (signing authors) need to be verified from Google to distribute apps in the following app stores:
- Google Play Store
- Honor App Market
- OPPO App Market
- Samsung Galaxy Store
- Transsion Palm Store
- vivo V-Appstore and
- Xiaomi GetApps
only in the countries of Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.
F-Droid is not included for this time.
It is planned to be rolled out globally across all markets/app stores by January of 2027.
Relevant sources:
https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides
https://keepandroidopen.org/
I used App Manager (io.github.muntashirakon.AppManager) for the screenshot; you can use your regular ‘Installed Apps’/‘Apps’ menu to see if it’s been rolled out automatically for you as well.
edit: First link was originally a typo, my bad. Fixed it.
That’s some pretty big hurdles to be honest, just a reminder of how sketchy Google is these days.
Less issue for me than Apple lol.
You can always (for now) go to LineageOS or GrapheneOS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Every shift away from open Android that users accept emboldens Google to lock it down further.
Switching from Android to Apple is really smart lol.
Why would you even switch from a pretty much open system to a fully closed one (even with the things the EU forces Apple to do)?
(This questions excludes Linux OSs on smartphones)
Apple is of course still far worse, but users shouldn’t be accepting Google’s changes to Android without complaint.
Not if you want your banking app to work, or some other apps that require you to have the “certified” os on your phone. If I have to stop using these apps, I might as well go back to a dumbphone.
Yep, and my bank just announced that they’re getting rid of the web portal at the end of the year. It’s app only from then on. And their app already didn’t work on my rooted phone. This will just be a more constraining restriction.
I can change banks, but it’s a sign of things to come.
We have the power to say no, not just accept crap.
I would rather stop using apps that require this bullshit than give up the literal pocket computer that’s powerful enough to do damn near whatever I want with it. I make my phone my bitch and I intend to keep it that way.
Banking apps that require this aren’t worthy of being installed. Just use their website. Banks still have websites.
Yeah, one of these apps is needed to log on into government websites to do my taxes and communicate with different agencies. It is possible to do without, but not practical.
The only govt website that requires extra security in the US is the IRS, but it’s through ID.me. I have my token for that on the Aegis authenticator app (FOSS, F-Droid, can be used on rooted/“insecure” devices).
They ask to enter a pin on the application to unlock the web site. I may have to leave my bank…
And what if someone doesn’t use the app? Can you decouple your bank account from the app?
Have to go in the phsysocal agency to do some operation like sending monney and you can’t set reccuring transactions…
They don’t have a normal-ass website that can handle all of that? Sounds incredibly inconvenient.
Web browsers exist still, though some particularly shitty sites don’t even have a mobile web view these days.
Banking apps i have seen require you to use their phone apps
My bank currently works but in the past it hasnt and the website worked just fine for the period of time the app didnt work.
I used Magisk for that on LineageOS
You don’t “use Magisk” to do that. Magisk only provides a path to do so.
What modules are you using to achieve this?
Luckily, I don’t have any day-to-day services that require I use an app.
My Bank works even without microG or some other Google supplement. It does show a warning on the initial boot that it might not, but it does. They also do not require to have the app, but its still nice to have.