Here's how Android 16’s Advanced Protection Mode secures your phone and data (APK teardown)

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It looks like Android 16 will be quite the promising update.

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If I had to guess, once 16 rolls around to Graphene, Graphene’s gonna use some of these added protections by default. I also heard that Advanced Protection will disable sideloading by default, which on stock, could unfortunately restrict people from installing apps like Tubular or FlorisBoard.

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Disabling sideloading by default isnt inherently a bad thing. This is a broader approach to improving security mostly for those who might unknowingly side load malicious applications. I think providing an option to override this for power users or installing these prior to toggling on advanced protection procedures would be great.

Graphene will take full advantage and maybe be able to implement it better.

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You realize that there is no such thing as sideloading? Why is downloading from the Play Store considered safe, while downloading from Acrescent isn’t?

Now if this has options to enable install from trusted app stores outside Google Play, then it’s good.

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Disabling sideloading is disappointing, I hope they let you disable that. Otherwise looks awesome.

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I don’t see anything new to GOS besides disable sideloading and Google stuff. But for other phones cool.

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you mean you hope they let you enable that?
Well I’m hoping GOS will take what’s in the android advanced protection and put everything and letting the sideloading be opt-in opt-out

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From the article:

These settings cannot be adjusted, helping ensure a consistent security level.

Honestly the only thing here that I think might be useful for GrapheneOS users is if apps choose to support the API. Then again it’s very possible they’ll just use it to force enable already existing settings which could be more annoying than useful. This seems to be the approach Google is taking with their first party apps.

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Is it from AOSP or part of Google Services?

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Maybe the web protections? There is already Vanadium, but perhaps here we see some iOS-like Safari lockdown?

But from the wording it might just be disabling JIT, which would be disappointing.

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