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.
  • 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.