So are they requiring ADB installations or what?
We don’t know exactly yet, but it sounds like they’re transitioning away from that requirement.
It sounds like they’re just going to put up more scary banners and/or hide the option in the developer menu.
“Are you sure? How sure? Just sure or sure-sure? How would you rate you sureness in a scale from 0 to 10?..”
There’s a thread about this on HN that I’m having trouble finding now, but I looked at it a couple days ago. It said you’ll be able to install unverified programs, but other programs will be able to tell that you have done so. E.g. your banking app could consider your phone “contaminated” and refuse to run, if it knows you’re running something unverified, that’s presumptively intercepting your typing or whatever.
Do Insular and silimiar apps block app from scanning?
Idk what Insular is, but I don’t think scanning is involved. Installing the unverified app sets a flag in the OS that other apps can read.
Island, Insular, shelter all use Android for Work. There are other options like Private Space.
They give some isolation, but I don’t know how much it helps.
