Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

People should be able to write software for Android, and distribute it outside Google’s Play store, without having to:

  • pay Google
  • give government ID to Google
  • agree to Google terms and conditions

People should be able to install the software they want on their phone, from sources other than Google’s Play store, without having to jump through Google-imposed hoops.

e.g. via F-Droid.

We’ve got until September this year to stop Google squeezing the open Android ecosystem.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/116087210269757672

  • certified_expert@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Dumb question: how is this affecting projects like Graphene OS?

    Can android just be forked and detached from google?

    I am guessing that despite being “open source”, the project depends on many binary blobs to interface with the wireless devices ??

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Google has been systematically moving stuff out of the open-source part of Android and into proprietary areas for some time now. They’re making it harder and harder for anyone to make a working Android OS that isn’t full of closed-source Google spyware. For now these projects survive, but Google is clearly hostile to them.