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チャノさん on Nostr: nprofile1q…8affl The Android Open Source Project is a publicly developed branch of ...

The Android Open Source Project is a publicly developed branch of Android which is used by other developers to create customized Android builds. A lot of non-Google Android phones use modified AOSP code for their own devices (Galaxy phones etc)

AOSP is also used to help develop after-market OSes (like Lineage and Graphene). Recently Google announced that AOSP development is going to be moved inside the company, and as such code will be less visible and less available. Everybody has to wait for a full release before they can adapt changes.

For projects like GrapheneOS this is a problem because now their ability to push updates is bottlenecked by the speed of AOSP releases. Combined with other anti-competitive Google practices, the ability to make Graphene work smoothly on Pixel 10 and future Pixel phones can't be guaranteed.

The Graphene people are now talking about crowdfunding to hire a manufacturer to produce phones with hardware specs designed for GrapheneOS... shit's expensive as fuck.

So yeah, Google's starting to close shit off and its making everybody else's life more difficult.