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Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android (www.phonearena.com)
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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 392 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (33 children)

Before anyone gets too excited, the headline is clickbait. The bigger Chinese phone brands are looking into de-googled Android. They are still going to use Android.

several prominent Chinese smartphone manufacturers, including Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and OnePlus, are exploring the possibility of developing versions of the Android operating system that do not rely on Google Mobile Services.

Chinese laptop makers are also in search of an OS that isn't Windows. Queue a race to prop Linux with Android support on that side of things.

[–] troed@fedia.io 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Waydroid is pretty nice, integrating the Android apps as regular apps in the Linux UI.

[–] network_switch@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Waydroid is very close to greatness. My major hope there is Valve contributions to Waydroid for probable Steam Deck integration will make it incredibly seamless. There’s also the Android Translation Layer being developed

https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Am I the only one who never got Waydroid to run even basic apps..?

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