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Google is Killing Open Source Android Apps (Here's Why) (techlore.tv)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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Fuck Google with a stiff wire brush.

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[–] 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Google has already shared how apps' developers will be verified. They're adding another app that will have access to block installing apps or disable them. That won't work on GrapheneOS because 1. the app won't be installed and 2. the app won't have that kind of privileged access.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think the issue is new hardware and google starting to close source android, so that Graphene devs don't have the open source to work with. They'll probably get binary blobs

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's my understanding that the changes that were made didn't make things more or less proprietary. Some drivers are still open source, others are still closed source. The device trees mostly have other things in them like configuration files and stuff like that.

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