229925 author: rl_dane@polymaths.social 23 Apr 15:00
tags: #aosp #calyxos #lineageos #microg
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Some of the alternate Androids are less bad, but it's certainly not good.

That's been my whole point for the duration of this conversation XD

I use #CalyxOS, which is based on #AOSP and #LineageOS.

It doesn't include any proprietary google code, except possibly some drivers, and an optional stub of some kind that's included in #MicroG.

209455 author: trwnh@mastodon.social 27 Mar 2025 03:35
tags: #android #aosp

whoa, #Android #AOSP no longer to be developed in the open -- source code will be made available in large releases instead https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/google-makes-android-development-private-will-continue-open-source-releases/

so much for the android "open" source project; this puts it firmly in google's hands as google android (where previously their strategy was to make google-exclusive versions of the stock aosp apps like clock calendar calculator etc, they now just straight-up won't let you see what's going on in between ~yearly releases)