MicroG Project: A re-implementation of Google's Android apps and libraries

Re:MicroG Project: A re-implementation of Google's Android a... by seba_dos1 on Thursday November 03, 2016 @05:09PM (#12867975)

I know from personal experience how hard it is to actually use AOSP phone. I eventually gave up, installed microG and started using apk mirrors, which makes things a lot better, though not ideal yet.

There's F-Droid which is bringing some hope, but pure AOSP with F-Droid still cannot even compete with Nokia N900.

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Re:MicroG Project: A re-implementation of Google's Android a... by ocdtrekkie on Thursday November 03, 2016 @07:10PM (#12868925)

I tried rolling the Google-free Android strategy for a while, but I found it was so unusable I took the first non-iPhone path off Android I could find. It's just too much frustration to try to deal with all the missing pieces. Currently I'm using a Lumia 929, but I'd kill for like an Ubuntu phone or something that works on Verizon.

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Re:MicroG Project: A re-implementation of Google's Android a... by devsquid on Thursday November 03, 2016 @05:17PM (#12868042)

Yes, what does that have to do with Android becoming a "proprietary operating system". Web services are integral in a modern smart phone. Google adds their own to Android. Others do as well, for example MicroG, Amazon, MIUI, etc.

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