Graphene OS has had just about enough of Google not doing more to make Android compatible with custom ROM projects.

TL;DR

  • Efforts like Graphene OS face increasing pressure from apps that refuse to run on non-standard Android.
  • The custom ROM project characterizes Google’s approach to device attestation as incomplete and flawed.
  • Graphene OS is prepared to take legal action if Google won’t let it pass Play Integrity checks.
  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Even without the custom ROMs, the whole Android ecosystem is a colossal fucking mess.

    I’ve got old apps that won’t work any more. It’s not even compatible with itself.

    People give Windows a load of shit, and deservedly so for some of it, but it’s a million times more usable than Android when you want shit to “just work”.

    • TunaCowboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I’ve got old apps that won’t work any more.

      People give Windows a load of shit… but it’s a million times more usable than Android

      Where do you run your old Windows Phone apps nowadays? What about new Windows Phone apps?

    • Emerald@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I’ve got old apps that won’t work any more.

      That’s true for every operating system. Old apps aren’t updated to use new system APIs and such and they eventually stop working.

      • yamanii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        On desktops we can use virtual environments, translation layers, plenty of solutions to make old programs and games work on a modern OS. Phones are somehow incapable of this.