The Google Play Store has a Nearby Share-powered method for sending apps on your device to others, but this is now going away…
Ofcourse they do. It would allow people to share and multiply old, non backdoored versions of apps. They know they will be forced to ship those soon.
Next they’ll remove side-loading alltogether. Look out, APKmirror, Google is coming for you.
From the article …
You can still use Files by Google to share Android applications in a similar manner. Under Categories, go to “Apps” and then the overflow menu for what you want to “Share.”
thats just some petty stuff
Yeah you got to wonder why they’re bothering to remove it if the functionality is still there from another one of their apps.
Who knows, they might be removing that feature in the near future too.
Maybe, you never know. That would be even harder for them to do though, since that is a utility app for working with files, and files are shared between devices.
