Keep Android Open

Keep Android Open is a campaign launched in October 2025 to oppose a Google policy requiring all Android app developers to register their identities with Google before their applications can be installed on certified Android devices, including via sideloading. The campaign by software developers and F-Droid board member Marc Prud'hommeaux is hosted at keepandroidopen.org. It has attracted support from free and open-source software organisations and digital rights groups, as well as technology companies, across more than twenty countries. The campaign's argument is that the verification requirement gives Google unilateral control over which software may run on certified Android devices regardless of how it is distributed, threatening independent app ecosystems, privacy-focused or custom ROMs. In February 2026, the campaign published an open letter to Alphabet Inc. leadership calling for the policy to be withdrawn; by late April 2026 it had attracted signatures from more than sixty organisations across more than twenty countries.