Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!
network_switch@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
It’s still worse than before. Really need to break mobile away from Google and Apple. Preferably as close to standard Linux as possible
tehmics@lemmy.world 1 day ago
AOSP makes a lot more sense to me. We just need to adopt Graphene or Lineage en masse and start contributing to support more devices, grow that out into a real alternative with support for the already existing android app ecosystem
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 day ago
Aosp makes more sense as a short term strategy, but google is making developing graphene harder, linux mobile is a much better long term strategy
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
The second I hear about a Linux mobile operating system that has even decent screen reader support, I will be switching.
Magnification in Linux desktops in particular has not been that difficult, but screen readers are a whole different can of worms.
I figure Linux Mobile will be able to do magnification properly as they do it fine on desktop and they can just copy the gestures from Android if nothing else.
tehmics@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
It doesn’t matter, you fork into something else entirely. It’s a hell of a lot easier to leverage the android ecosystems in a diverging fork than it is to build a whole new niche platform
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 12 hours ago
Linux mobile will be harder to build but in the long run will be vastly better, but it’s admittedly a very long run.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Graphene doesn’t fix the problem because it’s only available on Pixel devices
tehmics@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Try reading what I said
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Not for long. They’re going to start working with their own OEM.
Lightfire228@pawb.social 1 day ago
What about Play Integrity / Safetynet?
tehmics@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Yeah when are Linux phones going to be compatible
Lightfire228@pawb.social 13 hours ago
Waydroid doesn’t intend on supporting it. It’s a piece of code that checks for evidence of “tampering” (such as an unlocked bootloader, or root access), and sends those bits of data off to Google’s servers for verification
It’s antithetical to Waydroid and device freedom, and is used by banking apps for “security” reasons, as well as media apps for piracy reasons
And is a massive pain for anyone who root’s their devices