After the negative reaction of the community to the introduction of the obligatory registration of developers and applications in the certified Android assemblies, representatives of Google opened some additional Details upcoming changes. For registration of the developer, a fee of $ 25 will be charged, but for personal use, students and enthusiasts will be provided with a free account version that allows you to set their applications on a limited number of devices and does not require personality certificates.
The proposed free version can be used without passing the developer’s verification, but it is inexpensive for the mass distribution of applications and does not solve the problems of promoted The F-Droid project, as it requires registration in the Android Developer Console of each device for which the application can be installed. According to Google, such a restriction will not allow attackers to abuse a free unexplored account.
Before installing a third -party application, the user will have to determine the unique identifier of his device and transfer it to the application developer registered in Google as a student or enthusiast. After that, the developer should add the device identifier through the Android Developer Console interface and in this way to authorize the possibility of installing your program on a particular device.
of the additional problems that users may arise when installing mandatory developers, the need to have access to the Internet to perform checks during the installation of the application. At the first installation of the application, the Android platform will send a request to the new Android Developer Verifier system service, addressing the external Google server to verify the verification of the application developer who has assured the package with their digital signature.
for the most popular Android Developer applications Verifier will support the identifiers stored on the cache device, which allows in some cases to do without external verification. Google is also working on the implementation of the possibility for applications catalogs that allows you to do without additional external inspections – catalogs will be able to use preliminary authentication tokens (Pre -Auth Token), with which it will be possible to install related applications.
Support for direct installation of any application using the utility “ add