Google will develop Android OS entirely behind closed doors starting next week
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?
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We have some European alternatives to Android.
I used postmarket os in past and I can recommend it… it has terminal for people who want to tinker with it but it can be used without terminal. Os is very easy to use and supports many devices, their support channels are hosted on matrix
What hardware works probably for it to be a daily phone? Looks like none have the camera more than partly working and most have worse problems.
Pissed me off phones aren't just like PCs. They shouldn't need Device Tree and custom ROMs. We should be able to install whatever OS we want and be confident it can work.
This really could use some EU regulation. But probably not a very simple issue (especially the cameras I believe)
Absolutely. Google aren't going to demand discoverability for their platform. ARM aren't going to put it in either. Both are happy for things to go obsolete and be replaced just because of software. So it falls to regulators when the market fails.
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e/os too, yeah?
Isn't that a fork of LineageOS?
More like a derivative, they consistently port stuff over from Lineage, which is just a distribution of Android, which is in turn based on a gazillion other OS project starting from Linux.
In the end either it's good enough to have the "headquarters" of this specific project in Europe, no version of Android can be considered European enough, as it all depends way too heavily on Google.
There is also a decent chance of Google making Android closed source in the medium term anyway, but the last several releases of Android have not exactly added mindblowing features, and I don't have a tremendous amount of interest in whatever kind of enshittified cloud dependent AI infested mess they have planned next.
Hardware support is the main issue for me, all of these 3 none support my phone (Pixel 3)
Odd as Ubuntu Touch is fully optimized on the pixel 3a.
