[PokedBear]

It will be interesting to see how they handle packages from the various f-droid repos. F-droid builds and signs all their apps themselves, so will all of f-droid be covered by a single signing key and developer account? Or will the fact that they take apps from lots of folks bar them from an account?

[black3r]

F-Droid generates a unique key for each app and that key is then reused for all builds of that app. This will probably just require registering the F-Droid public key to the package name with Google.

[ycombinatrix]

Google to F-Droid: "no signature for you"

[logicchains]

I'd bet money they'd just ban them; the whole point is to stop users running unapproved applications on their phones.

[DangitBobby]

Unless I misunderstood the question, this is covered in TFA

> The tech giant stresses that this does not mean developers can’t distribute outside of the Play Store through other app stores or via sideloading — Android will remain open in that regard.

[joelthelion]

Initially they will help them. Once it becomes widely accepted that sideloading isn't a thing, they will ban them.