We sat down with Google's Sameer Samat to talk about Android's next transitional moment, sideloading, and his favorite devices right now.

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The tech giant points to security failings when sideloading apps in Google's Android software as a sign of how bad things can be. Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's ...

Samsung's February 2026 update is removing the 'Wipe cache partition' and ADB sideloading tools from Galaxy phones' Recovery ...

A reliable leaker says iPhone sideloading will come to the EU in the first half of 2024. So far, all signs point to this being only available in the EU, at least at first. Apple is making this change ...

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Recently there have been growing calls for Apple to allow third-party app stores for the iOS and iPadOS platforms, which would enable a process known as “sideloading”—installing an app on a device ...

We knew iPhone sideloading was inevitable in Europe long before Apple actually announced the feature. By sideloading, I don't just mean the ability of an iPhone user to download any application ...