The end of "Tasker App Factory" ? (Android Developer Verification)

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Google has announced ( https://developer.android.com/developer-verification ) that they in 2026 + 2027 will require that all apps installed on an Android Phone (all 'certified Android devices', which means most 'normal' Android phones) have to be signed by a registered developer - even when installed by sideloading apps either via a downloaded APK file or some alternative Android app store (like F-Droid and others)).

That is in already bad enough because Google now can (be forced to) close users ability to install certain apps if 'somebody' (e.g. the US government 🥕 ) decides that they no longer like that app or that country where the citizens of that country that might depend on a potentially important app - and then revokes the developer account (and that way the possibility to install these apps even by sideloading them).

But here in Tasker context this will as I see it mean that the "Tasker App Factory", which at the moment can be used to create stand alone  apps (=without the need of having Tasker installed on the phone where the created app is installed) no longer works when this change is in effect, as those apps created by Tasker end-users like me of course won't be signed by an Google approved/verified developer.

Any thoughts? I know that this new Google 'idea' is very new, so there is limited detail-information (one could *hope* Google will make it possible to install APK's created by non-verified users if one disables 'Play Protect').

But perhaps  (fingers crossed) joaomgcd has any thoughts or ideas about this ?