I don’t understand fully the implications…
@linux_fangirl if you’re running a customrom, very likely install restrictions will be patched out. AppLounge isn’t installing apps, it’s fetching apks and give them to system facilities (package manager) doing the install.
This isn’t about the customrom Android niche, but the majority on official Android, installing from 3rd party appstores (F-Droid etc). See the remarks at Torsten Grote: "People saying "But I use a degoogled custom ROM, …" - chaos.social and Arstechnica quotes, emphasis mine:
Google plans to create a streamlined Android Developer Console, which devs will use if they plan to distribute apps outside of the Play Store. After verifying their identities, developers will have to register the package name and signing keys of their apps. […]
Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it’s a certified device. If you have a non-Google build of Android on your phone, none of this applies. However, that’s a vanishingly small fraction of the Android ecosystem outside of China.