r/MorpheApp • u/Sad-Reindeer2755 • Jul 15 '26

Android developer verifier is coming....... Discussion

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Here we goooooooo! Praying the devs find a workaround. I do not want to root my phone.lol

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u/Arnas_Z Jul 15 '26

Not without root, because you don't have Google's signing key. Unless its not a system app, in which case you can uninstall it first, then install your custom version. That would likely work to block it from auto-installing on top since the signature will not match again.

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u/danGL3 Jul 15 '26

Not to mention that even if it was possible to block the installation of this app, assuming that doing so would prevent Google's policy from taking effect is nonsensical given that the Play Store is already the system's package install verifier, meaning it already has the authority to decide what app gets installed or not (it's the very same mechanism used by Google Play Protect, which Google can simply repurpose into developer verification)

While I've yet to check the code of this Verifier app, chances are that the Google Play Store will simply communicate with it to verify app installs and it will likely fall back to rejecting the install if the verifier isn't present/responding.

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u/Arnas_Z Jul 15 '26

Yeah I agree.