LineageOS is currently installed on 1.5M Android devices

• mtkclient

  37 2,093 8.2 Python

  MTK reverse engineering and flash tool

> Xiaomi

mtkclient [0] would let you skip the whole 7/14 days thing (also: unrestricted partition dumping/flashing). Though there are chances of ending up with soft/hard brick (normally possible to revert back to working state as long as you have backups), and there may be no support for your specific chipset/device/software revision at all.

0. https://github.com/bkerler/mtkclient

• android_kernel_google_marlin

  1 18 7.9 C
  

Lineage is more about convenience and longevity rather than security and privacy. As another commenter said, Graphene is most suitable for this task if it's a major concern.

Take a random device like Google Pixel [1] it runs on a 4.4 kernel, long outdated and no longer maintained by Google. You can explore the code [2] however you are not going to be getting critical security updates (such as those issued by Qualcommm or any closed source blobs/firmware etc).

Lineage is more about 'hacking' a kernel and making it work with the latest AOSP when the official software support ends. It's more vulnerable to exploits than a continuously supported device (although even devices that are 'in support' by the OEMs can often be depressingly behind things like patches etc).

Google is trying to fix this within the ecosystem (GKI etc) but at least as far as custom ROMs go...yeah, don't store state secrets on such a device ;)

[1]: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/sailfish/

[2]: https://github.com/LineageOS/android_kernel_google_marlin

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• hardened_malloc

  652 1,158 7.7 C

  Hardened allocator designed for modern systems. It has integration into Android's Bionic libc and can be used externally with musl and glibc as a dynamic library for use on other Linux-based platforms. It will gain more portability / integration over time.

  

It might be worth to switch to GrapheneOS if you have Pixel phones: https://grapheneos.org/

It is a more serious project than LineageOS in the sense that they take security very seriously and they take their development more professionally too. There are no disadvantages to using GrapheneOS compared to LineageOS.

You can see a comparison here: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

• GmsCore

  429 7,013 9.5 Java

  Free implementation of Play Services

  

Is anyone here daily-driving microg and can share their experiences? https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status does not exactly inspire confidence.

• android_packages_apps_Seedvault

  3 26 8.3 Kotlin
  

It can't, but major upgrades are much easier now if you are using SeedVault to reinstall all your apps and restore your app data.

https://github.com/LineageOS/android_packages_apps_Seedvault

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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