AFAIK you can still install any random APK but the process will require enabling developer mode and one time 24 hour wait period. But the problem is many stupid Apps check that developer mode is on and refuse to work.

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Liquid_Fire 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> many stupid Apps check that developer mode is on and refuse to work

Do you have some examples? I have developer mode enabled and have never seen any apps complaining (and I have used a lot of different banking apps).

	▲	istoleabread an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Almost all banking apps in my country do this, absolutely ridiculous on their behalf obviously

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geokon 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

An FDroid desktop client that adb installs APKs would actually be lovely. I pretty much exclusively use FDroid, but I gotta say I unfortunately find all their frontends to be rather buggy and with very little user feedback when things break (repo updates are hard to observe, downloads hang, updates mysteriously fail)

	▲	greeniskool 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I feel you about the frontends being buggy. Right now I've settled with Droid-ify[1] for doing my F-Droid browsing. [1] https://droidify.app/

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AussieWog93 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm not aware of any apps that check for developer mode, that's mainly root.

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nutjob2 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How long before they take that option away?