[orangecat]

This mostly confirms that it's exactly as bad as we thought. The only clarification is that building from source and installing via adb will continue to be allowed. For now.

[MrDresden]

My understanding was that those packages still had to be signed with a key known to Google.

[takluyver]

The current blog post does appear to say that you don't need to be verified to install and run apps with adb.

[MrDresden]

Ah thanks for correcting me. I had only listened to the ADB podcast episode and from that it seemed that signature would always be needed.