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In Android 8.1 Oreo and Android 9 Pie, if you want to install an application outside of Google Play Store, you must enable the "Install unknown applications" permission for all applications that you will use to install APKs. Once you enable this permission, it remains until you manually turn it off.
However, this does not seem to be the case in the first two versions of Android Q. In the most recent beta version, you must enable the "Install unknown applications" permission whenever you want to install an APK.
To show you how it works, see the GIF below:
As you can see, when I tried to install Pulse SMS APK from Google Drive, Android Q m asked permission to install the unknown software. I have enabled this permission and then the application is installed normally.
However, when I tried to install the same SMS Pulse APK from the same source (Google Drive), Android QM asked again to enable the authorization.
In other words, if you install a large number of APKs out of the Play Store, you will need to do a lot of tapping under Android Q.
Of course, this is only a beta version of Android Q and it could be a bug. It is possible that the stable version of the operating system does not behave this way and works rather like the current versions of Android.
That said, this seems to be the kind of "feature" that would fit with Google's focus on security and privacy with Android Q. It is certainly possible that this feature will get to stable launch.
What do you think? Is this a welcome change or just boring? Let us know in the comments.
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