It is not descriptive as you claim.

It’s in the wikipedia article I linked.

It is circumventing roadblocks put in place

But that’s what I’m trying to explain and nobody seems to get: that’s the meaning Android put into the term. Long before that, it just used to describe “the process of transferring files between two local devices”.

One more time: Android adopted this term and made it into something “bad”. And I fucking hate that, and everything that entails right now, just like the rest of you.

But the term sideloading is older than Android, and originally did not have this negative connotation, quite the opposite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideloading#Historical

I don’t need a PC to put apps on my phone

I was refering to the origins of that term. “Computer” as in any device with an OS.

These are by far not the only options.

Wait, you didn’t even mention LineageOS? Since it doesn’t come with Gapps/Playstore it’s unaffected by any of this.

Anybody who has an opinion about these things and doesn’t just accept everything Big Tech throws at them saw (something like this) developing for years, nay decades, and had plenty of time to move on. So who exactly “hates it” now? I suspect it’s the typical Android App developer who always has one eye on monetization and is therefore willing to accept a lot of shit from the OS they’re devleoping for until it affects them directly.

Not that I don’t agree with them.

I hate it too but tbf its descriptive of what it originally meant: sticking something into the side of your computer (edit: or any device) and loading software from that.

The term isn’t invented by Android and didn’t have any negative connotation originally. That’s all Android’s doing.

edit: what’s with the downvotes? I’m stating fact and I’m definitely not defending Android in any way.

edit2: I’m just trying to raise awareness of the history of this and other terms, and how Android and other entities sometimes hijack them for their own purposes.

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Droidian (previously known as hybris-mobian) is a version of Mobian that runs on top of Android’s variant of the Linux kernel and the Libhybris and Halium adaptation layer and works with devices that are supported by Ubuntu Touch. It can be installed using the UBports installer.

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