Comment on Rumour: Google intends to discontinue the Android Open Source Project – OSnews
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Soooo, that means that android is fucked but custom roms should be able to continue from android 15, not?
Comment on Rumour: Google intends to discontinue the Android Open Source Project – OSnews
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Soooo, that means that android is fucked but custom roms should be able to continue from android 15, not?
LWD@lemm.ee 3 days ago
The more time goes by, the worse the divergence will be. (I think this is basically the idea, but correct me if I’m wrong:) Right now, we might have GrapheneOS 15 vs Android 16. But eventually, there will be an Android 17 and an Android 18. GrapheneOS developers will either have to trudge along with an older OS, or hire more developers to recreate the missing pieces of the code - pieces Google has already created but will never release . The missing pieces will get bigger and more significant. Android 15 will age out of security updates.
This is pretty bad.
xavier666@lemm.ee 2 days ago
How will Samsung/OnePlus use Android 17 and 18?
LWD@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Those companies have always developed some of their own, “hardware-specific” software and never released the results to the public either.
(Correct me if I’m wrong here, but that’s probably why pixels of the past have had really good ROMs, while phones from other companies are lucky to get LineageOS on them.)
xavier666@lemm.ee 2 days ago
That’s not what I meant. Will the other OEMs have to pay Google for using Android 17 (since it’s not open-source anymore) ?