{"id":46692,"date":"2025-02-10T13:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T18:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=46692"},"modified":"2025-02-10T13:47:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T18:47:22","slug":"tiktok-android-sideloading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/10\/tiktok-android-sideloading\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Android Sideloading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TikTokPolicy\/status\/1888048200486949249\">TikTok<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TikTokPolicy\/status\/1888048200486949249\"><p>We&rsquo;re enhancing ways for our community to continue using TikTok by making Android Package Kits available at <a href=\"http:\/\/TikTok.com\/download\">TikTok.com\/download<\/a> so that our U.S. Android users can download our app and create, discover, and connect on TikTok.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2025\/02\/08\/tiktok-android-sideloading\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2025\/02\/08\/tiktok-android-sideloading\">\n<p>I suspect something is going to give on this standoff. Either (a) China relents and actually sells to a U.S. company, and TikTok comes back to the App Store and Play Store; or (b) <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2025\/01\/briktok\">Trump&rsquo;s extralegal extension<\/a> expires with no sale and Oracle and Akamai are forced to pull the plug on ByteDance&rsquo;s cloud services in the US.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>If I&rsquo;m wrong and TikTok remains in this half-zombie state in the US&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;unavailable in the App Store or Play Store, but operational if you have the app installed on your phone&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;it&rsquo;ll be interesting if TikTok is the app that makes the mass market actually care about the lack of sideloading on iOS. It&rsquo;ll be interesting too if sideloading on Android goes mainstream because of this.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Does app vs. Web make that much difference if you&rsquo;re just consuming the videos?<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/21\/tiktok-takedown\/\">TikTok Takedown<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/22\/the-app-store-era-must-end\/\">The App Store Era Must End<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok: We&rsquo;re enhancing ways for our community to continue using TikTok by making Android Package Kits available at TikTok.com\/download so that our U.S. Android users can download our app and create, discover, and connect on TikTok. Via John Gruber: I suspect something is going to give on this standoff. Either (a) China relents and actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-02-10T18:47:24Z","apple_news_api_id":"d208570b-c3bb-44d5-b9cf-17d55e495dab","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-02-10T18:47:24Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A0ghXC8O7RNW5zxfVXkldqw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[248,249,91,31,2586,26,2132,1904],"class_list":["post-46692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-androidapp","tag-appstore","tag-ios","tag-ios-18","tag-iosapp","tag-sideloading","tag-tiktok"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46693,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46692\/revisions\/46693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}