--- title: Installing From Unknown Sources Comes Back! - Mobile Dev... description: A monthly roundup of Android and Kotlin ecosystem news for April 2026. Key highlights include: Android Studio Panda 2 release with AI project creation wizard... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/installing-from-unknown-sources-comes-back---mobile-dev-news-april-2026-gi3qvqmhe twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Installing From Unknown Sources Comes Back! - Mobile Dev News April 2026 | daily.dev og:description: A monthly roundup of Android and Kotlin ecosystem news for April 2026. Key highlights include: Android Studio Panda 2 release with AI project creation wizard... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/installing-from-unknown-sources-comes-back---mobile-dev-news-april-2026-gi3qvqmhe og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Gi3QvqmhE.png og:image:alt: Installing From Unknown Sources Comes Back! - Mobile Dev News April 2026 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Installing From Unknown Sources Comes Back! - Mobile Dev News April 2026 **[Philipp Lackner](https://daily.dev/sources/philipplackner)** · 14 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A monthly roundup of Android and Kotlin ecosystem news for April 2026. Key highlights include: Android Studio Panda 2 release with AI project creation wizard and AI-assisted library version updates; Room 3.0 alpha launch with full Kotlin Multiplatform support including KotlinJS and Kotlin/Wasm, enforcing coroutine-first APIs and dropping blocking function calls; Google Play's new battery usage penalties for apps holding non-exempt partial wake locks; Google's Android Bench LLM leaderboard for Android development tasks (Gemini 3.1 tops it, though the author questions objectivity); and changes to sideloading policy — a new 'advanced flow' lets power users install APKs from unverified sources after enabling developer mode and waiting 24 hours, plus a limited distribution account for hobbyists capped at 20 devices, with full developer verification enforcement coming September 2026. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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