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Google's Sameer Samat on Android Sideloading: "It's Not Going Anywhere"

When Sameer Samat joined us on Android Faithful this week, we were prepared to discuss the announcements from The Android Show: I/O Edition. We didn't think sideloading was going to come up, nor did we plan to discuss it. But when Google's President of the Android Ecosystem brought it up, we weren't going to stop him. "I'll address this briefly even though you didn't ask for it," Samat told us, "just because I think it is important to your user …
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androidfaithful.com broke the news on Tuesday, May 12, 2026.
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