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This mostly confirms that it's exactly as bad as we thought. The only clarification is that building from source and installing via adb will continue to be allowed. For now.

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My understanding was that those packages still had to be signed with a key known to Google.

The current blog post does appear to say that you don't need to be verified to install and run apps with adb.

Ah thanks for correcting me. I had only listened to the ADB podcast episode and from that it seemed that signature would always be needed.

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