Starting in 2026, sideloaded apps will have to come from “verified” developers.
And before you know it, Android will no longer be open source for “security” reasons.
I have absolutely zore faith AOSP is long for this world. The GrapheneOS folks need to find a way off yesterday
The beauty of open source is that Google can’t take it back. The worst they can do is close source their own future development. Meanwhile, the community can fork the last open source release of AOSP. Look at what open source devs did with Audacity, for example.
The real fly in the ointment here is Google already did with device trees and driver binaries for Pixel phones; no longer sharing these with AOSP will have a very chilling effect on custom ROM developers who must now reverse engineer needed configs and drivers.
So like what mobile OS is there now? Graphene which itself is forked from Android? Like we have barely made it to 20 years with this tech and its locked the fuck up with no options for the people. Boutta be using a dumbphone for sure.
Graphene is not a fork. They just harden the code published by Google. This is why the recent changes by Google have been causing them more work.
Yes, that is what a fork is.
