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AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 6 months ago by lzfm@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Google has made it harder to build custom Android ROMs for Pixel phones by omitting their device trees and driver binaries from the latest AOSP release.
The company says this is because it’s shifting its AOSP reference target from Pixel hardware to a virtual device called “Cuttlefish” to be more neutral.
While Google insists AOSP isn’t going away, developers must now reverse-engineer changes, making the process for supporting Pixel devices more difficult.

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago

What about the OS part of AOSP?
Don't the ROM makers already fork AOSP to begin with?

[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Damn, I've just switched to Pixel 3a XL I got for $100 and then installed Evolution OS.

[–] mal3oon@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

It's the year of the linux phone. /s

[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

apple and google are doing their best to promote linux phones at this point.

dont buy american

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Unrelated: The top bar in this article indicating the article position is so fucking stupid. Guess what the scroll bar on the right hand side is for?

[+] andybytes@programming.dev -7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Like, I understand the more the merrier, and so I don't hate on the whole Pixel, ROM development thingy, but I just don't understand the appeal of Pixel phones. If you want to be a photographer, get a camera. Other than that, you really don't need that great of a camera on your phone. Given the condition of America and the police state and corporate surveillance, I don't know why anybody with a damn look of sense would put their information on these major platforms, let alone even on the outskirts. Some people make money on social media, but a lot don't. I stick to my guns and I'm on the internet and computers to learn to educate myself, not to dick around with stupid shit. We need something other than Android. And we have to be weary of open source, especially when it's sponsored by Google. Google is a terrorist organization.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

If you want to be a photographer, get a camera.

🤦‍♀️

Even professional photographers don't have their cameras on them at all times, nor are they as convenient for just whipping out and taking a picture within 1.5s.

Plus, cameras are expensive and they're another thing to carry around (idk about you but I don't have infinite pocket space) and they're another thing to keep charged, whereas you have a phone with you at pretty much all times anyway, because they're effectively required for modern society.

You may as well be saying you don't understand why phones can play music when you can get an MP3 player, that you don't understand why they play videos because TVs exist, that you don't understand why they have web browsers and plenty of apps, because PCs exist.

I stick to my guns and I'm on the internet and computers to learn to educate myself, not to dick around with stupid shit.

He said, on this Lemmy thread.

And we have to be weary of open source

Ah yes, that nefarious Open Source software. Tell me more about the evils of FOSS, Mr Balmer.

[–] shaggyb@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Being weary of open source is like being afraid to eat food that you watched somebody cook for you.

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