withersailor@aussie.zone to Android@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoGoogle is about to make life more difficult for custom ROM fanswww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down12cross-posted to: tech@kbin.sociallineageos@lemmy.mlprivacy@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareSgtThunderC_nt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up18·2 years agoGoogle is trying to kill open source based on the assumption that their code is good enough to stand on its own, but as we’ve seen before, the majority of innovation that occurs on Android and it’s derivatives come from third party developers.
minus-squareeleitl@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 years agoI’m using LineageOS. A new dialer app wouldn’t be that hard (not needed on a tablet) and there are plenty of messaging apps.
minus-squareJshKlsn@lemmy.mlMlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 years agoLineageOS already uses their own version of these apps. They do not use AOSP Dialer or Messages. https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/110543667890478353
minus-squareeleitl@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoGreat. I was unclear on what the default is after Signal deprecated sms support so I had to pick something else to handle them.
Google is trying to kill open source based on the assumption that their code is good enough to stand on its own, but as we’ve seen before, the majority of innovation that occurs on Android and it’s derivatives come from third party developers.
I’m using LineageOS. A new dialer app wouldn’t be that hard (not needed on a tablet) and there are plenty of messaging apps.
LineageOS already uses their own version of these apps. They do not use AOSP Dialer or Messages.
https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/110543667890478353
Great. I was unclear on what the default is after Signal deprecated sms support so I had to pick something else to handle them.