Google is adjusting how Android is made, with the AOSP branch moving behind closed doors, leaving the entire OS to be privately developed.

So, are we going to get any European alternatives to android?

  • PortugueseFOSStechie@lemmy.mlEnglish
    191·
    1 year ago

    I wonder what this will do to grapheneOS. I was just about to flash it on my phone this weekend.

    Yet another example of companies circling the wagons

      • PortugueseFOSStechie@lemmy.mlEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

        I understand that.

        But the development will be in closed branches.

        That has a greater chance of causing pains when GOS devs are adjusting these new features right?

        Because now you, theoretically, have no upfront information about whatever bloatware google is about to inject in.

        • epyon22@programming.dev
          14·
          1 year ago

          They didn’t before this only affects code changes going from AOSP to Google’s private branch, which is going away. Code from Google’s private branch to AOSP is unaffected. Custom ROMs are all just down stream consumers of AOSP repository anyways.