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AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 4 days ago by lzfm@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Google has made it harder to build custom Android ROMs for Pixel phones by omitting their device trees and driver binaries from the latest AOSP release.
The company says this is because it’s shifting its AOSP reference target from Pixel hardware to a virtual device called “Cuttlefish” to be more neutral.
While Google insists AOSP isn’t going away, developers must now reverse-engineer changes, making the process for supporting Pixel devices more difficult.

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[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If Pine64 can spec out a reasonably decent prototype of a phone and Purism can sell theirs for 2 grand (not worth it), then somebody else can legit come out with something just the same. Pine64 project and Purism cannot be the only communities that can somehow come out with these kinds of tech. Better yet, more people should be jumping to help out these guys to be free from Google and Apple dominance.

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

Teracube just came out with their 3 phone Teracube 2s, and of course there is Fairphone

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So I bought a pixel device (an old one) for nothing ?

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[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Damn, I've just switched to Pixel 3a XL I got for $100 and then installed Evolution OS.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

What about the OS part of AOSP?
Don't the ROM makers already fork AOSP to begin with?

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Unrelated: The top bar in this article indicating the article position is so fucking stupid. Guess what the scroll bar on the right hand side is for?

[+] pimento64@sopuli.xyz -35 points 4 days ago (3 children)

This would be sad if Pixel phones were worth buying, instead of being far inferior to midrange Motorola devices in battery life and performance while costing well over twice as much.

[–] shaggyb@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I mean, you're getting a lot of downvotes, but I've gone Motorola -> Motorola -> Motorola -> Pixel -> Pixel -> Motorola.

Both my Pixels died in less than a year. Each had battery life which, while it did improve over a few weeks as Pixel's optimization stuff took hold, never reached an entire day. Both were unacceptably fragile. Both failed randomly, just out of warranty.

And the Motorola I'm using now has none of those problems, was cheaper, is faster, has a better battery, has a better screen, and in some ways is more customizable (fuck that unmovable search bar).

Like, really. Motorola is a sleeper brand. Not perfect, but damn good.

[–] SavageCoconut@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Which motorola?

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[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

See? Pixel devices are nothing but a trip to the lemon grove, but people with debilitating chronic ass pain tearfully refuse to accept that they wasted their money on GETBRAND. I take those downvotes as an unofficial census confirming how many people don't know ball.

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[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 7 points 4 days ago (3 children)

You must be ignoring the Motorola bloat that makes it's performance beyond subpar somehow

[–] shaggyb@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

All of which can be disabled.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

I have never had a Motorola smartphone... But Canta is a thing :)

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

People who use stock ROMs choose to suffer, just like people who choose to buy a Pixel that will either come unglued, push components through the display, or just constantly overheat.

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