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Wear OS app sideloading is going away next month

Wear OS app sideloading is going away next month

Posted on February 15, 2021August 27, 2023 By Jarvis

One of the benefits of the openness of the Android platform is that users technically aren’t limited to getting apps just from Google Play Store or any app store for that matter. At their own risks, users could simply “sideload” or install APKs for apps that are distributed outside of those channels. That feature has more or less also been available on Android’s wearable version but Google is soon making a major change that would make sideloading Wear OS apps next to impossible.
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