Google makes Android development private, will continue open source releases

Re:Google makes Android development private, will continue o... by surgical_fire on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @05:01PM (#43487266)

I am curious how it would affect projects such as GrapheneOS or LineageOS.

Hopefully they can still function like this

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Re:Google makes Android development private, will continue o... by borntoolate on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @07:28PM (#43488709)

It sounds to me like Graphene will have a large gap of access to fixes compared to the special vendors.. I wont be upgrading to a newer Pixel until I see a year or two of this working out and I think that is less likely than a descent.

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Re:Google makes Android development private, will continue o... by charcircuit on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @09:41PM (#43489573)

I doubt it effects them. Those operating systems are based off Android 15. I don't think either of them were trying to backport Android 16 code into their OS.

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Re:Google makes Android development private, will continue o... by nvllsvm on Thursday March 27, 2025 @02:42AM (#43490964)

The 2025032500 release of GrapheneOS contains a backported fix from Android 16. https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025032500

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Re:Google makes Android development private, will continue o... by jadbox on Friday March 28, 2025 @12:25PM (#43507260)

+1 I don't think it effects them as they usually only pick up releases after they are published, which is when Google will release the source now anyways.

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