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The state of (real) Linux on phones - will they ever be truly usable?
Android is basically open source at the bare minimum. To use Android in a meaningful way, you need Google Play Services, which are proprietary and have root privileges on most Android phones (allowing Google to collect a lot of private data easily). The only ROMs I know of which utilise Sandboxed Google Play Services are GrapheneOS and ProtonAOSP. microG exists on CalyxOS and /e/ OS, but it will never be as compatible as Google Play Services.
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Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years
One problem with relying on emulation is that Google has moved a lot of functionality from the open source Android layer to Google Play Services, and they obviously wont publish that on someone else's platform.
https://developers.google.com/android/guides/overview
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PrivacyGuides.org considered harmful?
The main privacy concern with most Android devices is that they usually include Google Play Services.
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Several android apps suddenly requires google play service within months
Here's an overview: https://developers.google.com/android/guides/overview
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What legal documents should your app have?
Yeah, frustrating I know. I actually made a PR 5 months ago (based on another) to introduce the ability to add libraries if they don’t have it included in their POM. Our use case was that we used a web view with local JS files that we needed to attribute to.
ubuntu-touch
- My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things your modern iPhone still can't do
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The state of (real) Linux on phones - will they ever be truly usable?
Ubuntu Touch, for example, does not support Full Disk Encryption, when Android has moved on from Full Disk Encryption to File-Based Encryption. Android utilises SELinux in enforcing mode for Mandatory Access Control even for root/superuser processes. Sandboxing with Flatpak cannot compare to the OS-level app sandboxing done on Android and iOS. Permission management on Flatpak is good, but still not as advanced as Android or iOS. On phones, (real) Linux is quite easily outclassed in security when compared to Android.
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The FBI Just Admitted It Bought US Location Data
For those seeking a change https://ubports.com/
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De-Googled Android Phone Recommendations?
It still uses many of the Android components via Halium on traditional Android devices which end up unpatched and for devices not with a mainline kernel use outdated vendor kernels. https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/1566
- How good would be this ? a Linux phone from a serious Linux company
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What phone is best if I want to make an operating system?
I'd suggest taking a look at contributing to existing efforts like UBPorts
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Alternatives to Android OS
Ubuntu Touch doesn't even have encryption and ships kernels with many known security issues: https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/178
- The Fairphone 4 can now run Ubuntu Touch
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Canonical should ditch Snap, embrace Flatpak and improve APT
Fyi, the project isn't dead, it is just not developed by Canonical anymore: https://ubports.com/
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Operating System development for smart phones?
There is already Ubport https://ubports.com/ project that is supporting Ubuntu for smartphones and guides you to compile debian with all the phone functionalities. Some parts of modem abstraction layer on the Linux (below radio Interface layer) will still be not openesource and i would say it won't be easy to get this source.
What are some alternatives?
gradle-license-plugin - Gradle plugin that provides a task to generate a HTML license report of your project.
termux-desktop - Setup A Beautiful Desktop/GUI In Termux
scan-gradle-plugin - Gradle plugin that scans the dependencies of a Gradle project using Sonatype platforms: OSS Index and Nexus IQ Server.
privacyguides.org - Protect your data against global mass surveillance programs.
GmsCoreHuawei - Attempt to support Free implementation of Play Services for HUAWEI devices
pure-maps - Maps and navigation
GmsCore - Free implementation of Play Services
systemd - systemd upstream
baritone - google maps for block game
qt - Qt binding for Go (Golang) with support for Windows / macOS / Linux / FreeBSD / Android / iOS / Sailfish OS / Raspberry Pi / AsteroidOS / Ubuntu Touch / JavaScript / WebAssembly
Android Tips & Tricks - :ballot_box_with_check: [Cheatsheet] Tips and tricks for Android Development
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