What percentage of android devices, in the world, have that box ticked?

Natanael_L · on Feb 9, 2019

Enough for Fortnite to get players on Android

slrz · on Feb 9, 2019

I'd guess most of them, if you actually consider the whole world.

Probably not enough to matter, if you are only looking at the UK.

efreak · on Feb 10, 2019

Actually, alternative app stores can make use of that as well. The installer app needs to be installed as a system app with proper permissions, and it will them be able to background install apps on demand just like Google play does. The F-Droid Privileged Extension[0] does just that. While you need to be rooted to add/register such apps, that's not a problem for device manufacturers.

[0] https://gitlab.com/fdroid/privileged-extension/

zifnab06 · on Feb 10, 2019

As of Oreo Google doesn't allow this for devices if they're to pass CTS without users jumping through multiple hoops first.

yjftsjthsd-h · on Feb 10, 2019

Oh, good point. I forgot about China.

morpheuskafka · on Feb 12, 2019

If you open an APK it prompts you to go right to Settings and enable it. Actually easier than installing Firefox on a brand new Windows Surface, which requires an MS account to enable unknown app sources.