Google is about to make life more difficult for custom ROM fans
Google is about to make life more difficult for custom ROM fans
Google has quietly deprecated the Messages and Dialer apps in AOSP, and it could have ramifications for upstart brands and custom ROM fans.
Google has quietly deprecated the Messages and Dialer apps in AOSP, and it could have ramifications for upstart brands and custom ROM fans.
At this point it's just a countdown until Google winds down AOSP altogether and takes its whole mobile OS proprietary.
oh god, please no, mobile Linux is not yet ready 😩
and i say that as a hardcore NixOS-UserIt seems to me that that might seriously deter third-party Android distributors—AFAIK most do not ship stock Google apps for all the basic utilities, they only ship the auxiliary ones like Gmail or Docs.
Google doing what Google does best
Not not being evil.
OK Google, you win. I capitulate. Next phone is going to be Apple. If it's locked down, low customization walled garden either way I'd rather something with trade in value and a bit of snob appeal.
Or just don't buy a phone. The resources required to build a phone are literally destroying our planet. I wish I was exaggerating.
Wish I could, and I'm completely with you on both manufacturing and mining needed to enable our phone addictions. But I need it to function in modern society, much like my car or industrially farmed food. Being reachable and being able to reach out 24x7 is now an expectation. I don't have the practiced skills to be useful as an agrarian, and not being into religion I'm pretty sure the Amish wouldn't take me in.
Once the not-user-serviceable battery dies or hardware start to glitch at around 2 years of age a replacement is mandatory for me. Apple's phones seem to be designed for a service life of 3-4 years rather than 1-2, so that may be a way to help.
Unfortunate, but somewhat of a formality. AOSP Messages and Dialer were essentially deprecated as it was already, and we have many projects ready to take their place.
Aren’t there alternative dialer and messaging apps out there? The existing dialer and messaging apps on AOSP are already old & massively out-of-line with the rest of the OS.
Yes, I use Simple Dialer and Messages from F-Droid.
Because Android users notoriously complain about their OS not being completely locked down with zero freedom whatsoever!
Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.
I've been slowly migrating to postmarketos, android will only get worse.
They have been doing it app by app for a decade. Nothing new to see here, wonder when they'll deprecate Android altogether
But...but.... Isn't AOSP open source? Did someone lie to me? Just restore the functions! Right? Am I right?
Or was Google just exploiting people believing that they were participating to an open source project?
This news serves as perhaps further evidence of AOSP’s reduced significance, as Google seeks to tie more and more previously open-source features behind its own proprietary frameworks and services.
Surprise motherfuckers! \o/
I got sick of vendors being a year behind on updates which would prompt me to use a custom ROM. Decided to finally just get a pixel and live with the fact I will never be able to de-google myself unless I totally leave the eco-system
I'm guessing it's not a big deal to replace it with a third party text messaging open source app; I'm not sure about the Dialer, though.
It would be an interesting solution, to port a few mobile Linux apps to Android (some of them are already there) - I'm a bit worried about potential maintenance burden for platform support; but it could benefit KDE/GNOME apps by getting feedback from a bigger bunch of users.
Big tech conglomerates thrive on their user base. They lure you in, get you hooked into their ecosystem, and then try to convince you to become dependent upon their services.
This tactic is just gas-lighting. There are other options out there but they don't want you to be aware of them or seek them out.
This is a shitty tactic for sure, but it's not gaslighting. Gaslighting would be if they acted like everyone who mentioned the AOSP dialler was crazy for thinking it ever existed. This is standard drug-slinger bullshit.
My next phone is gonna be a Linux phone anyway.