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by cma 1510 days ago
So you've gone through all the weird flows to accept and enable installing. Now how do you get security updates? Google scares them again every time, even though android apps can already execute arbitrary downloaded unsigned code at runtime (otherwise V8 and other JITs that generate machine code can't work), so it isn't really protecting much and mainly makes things more insecure by not letting you add your own trusted providers permanently for timely updates.
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Self updates can be a thing now in Android 12 I believe[1]. The initial install and updates should be easier though, and not just on 12.

[1] https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.per...