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The Fight for Android's Open Ecosystem (F-Droid Interview) (techlore.tv)
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[โ€“] 23 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Whelp, fuck Google. I've been slowly transitioning to being Google Free. Google = EVIL.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Gotta get around to deleting my Google account thankfully I got all my play books onto Calibre.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Don't delete. You may find in the future you used Gmail for an account you forgot about. Just let the account sit there.

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    • [โ€“] 26 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I hope they choose to focus efforts on linux instead of trying to keep Google from fully obliterating their ability to offer apps on the Android platform.

    Even if they are thrown a bone during this fight, it's going to keep happening until they lose. The reason linux is so bad to try to use as a smartphone right now is because entities like these are busy trying to piss up a rope with Google and Android. We could have actually had robust and feature rich linux phones if they had taken the hint when Google first started shitting on people trying to use their Android phone in the way they want to.

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    • [โ€“] 9 points 11 months ago

    Since many years I've used exclusively GrapheneOS with F-Droid. Fuck proprietary software and especially fuck Google.

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    [โ€“] 6 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    So, like, will Linux phones be able to run a compatibility layer that lets FDroidย  Android apps work on them?

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Besides Waydroid there's also SailfishOS which has AndroidAppSupport, which works a lot better than Waydroid, but still isn't perfect. Of all the Linux mobile OSes, I think SailfishOS has the best design and ecosystem. You might have seen the preorder campaign for the new Jolla phone that might be interesting if you want to move away from Android phones.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    That sounds like good work being done!

    Afaik Jolla doesn't work in USA but if the is is open-source maybe I can find a way to install it

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Sadly some parts of SFOS is closed source. I think it should work in the US, they just currently don't sell anything from their stores outside of the EU. Any community port should be able to run, but then without the official AndroidAppSupport and only with Waydroid.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Yes, thatโ€™s called Waydroid.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I know that waydroid exists but will it work on Linux phones in the same way that Xwayland can seamlessly or relatively seamlessly allow X11 apps to work on a wayland compositor without the user having to think about it too much.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    It's not as seamless as it should be sadly. You have to use a command to install it on Ubuntu Touch.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    That doesn't sound too bad for if I have a Linux phone. What I'm more thinking about is can you use all the gestures for navigation and stuff that you're used to and will the app work full screen and basically can you forget that you are not using a native app.

    I guess this is all hypothetical and some apps will work better than others just like anything else.

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    • [โ€“] [S] -2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Too late Google Linux phones are booming.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Linux phones are booming.

    Booming, eh?

    image

    If you're having problems finding the linux line on the graph, it's one of those at the 0%.

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  • [โ€“] [S] -1 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Thereโ€™s more interest I have seen first hand in the groups. Many phones have locked bootloaders.

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  • [โ€“] 15 points 11 months ago

    More interest is a very far cry from "linux phones are booming". Linux phones are not booming, they are niche projects for people that like to tinker and don't need any of the most popular phone apps and features.

    Until we can install linux on more than a couple phones, trust cellular connections across all the networks and have access to the majority of features and apps that a smart phone should possess, linux phones will never "boom".

    I say this as a Ubuntu touch user on the Fairphone 4. It is not an experience that anyone else I know would accept from their smartphone.

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