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Following last year's Apple CEO Cook's statement at the DealBook Summit that "if you want to sideload APPs, please buy an Android phone", recently, it is reported that starting from Android 13, Google will not allow sideloading APPs to use the Accessibility API.

The so-called "software sideloading" refers to users bypassing the official software store and installing application software developed by third-party organizations in the mobile phone system by themselves .

For a long time, the biggest feature of the Android system is to allow users to sideload various applications by themselves. The restrictions on the Accessibility API this time are not to completely prohibit sideloading , but to prevent malicious behavior caused by the abuse of this interface, thereby improving the Security for sideloaded apps.

The Accessibility API is a very powerful set of tools that, if abused, can give an application complete control over a user's device. As a result, Google has been cracking down on misuse and malicious use of the interface for years.

Recently, Google's official Play application store has a revised policy that prevents all third-party applications from remotely recording through this API.

It is worth noting that this restriction does not affect apps downloaded/sideloaded through Google's official Play Store and trusted third-party app stores, only APK installation packages from untrusted sources.

Finally, Google said that the Android 13 system will completely prohibit users from granting permissions to applications that are not trusted channels, and some of the corresponding permissions will be grayed out. not available" message.


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