Google have declared Droidscript is malware

• termux-packages

  328 12,205 10.0 Shell

  A package build system for Termux.

  

Given the issues that termux has hit, they're certainly moving that way.

https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An...

• pass-import

  403 768 8.4 Python

  A pass extension for importing data from most existing password managers

• WorkOS

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• AppWarden

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I totally agree with your points there.

But I think that the main issues of Android is even a level further than just the Play Services.

There are lots of initiatives that try to create a free ecosystem for themselves (Lineage, /e/, Carbon, et al), with their own stores and sources for Apps. Most of them have varying degrees of success, due to gapps and their counterparts like microG [1] just cannot keep up with what Google's Play Services provide API-wise. It's an absurd amount of features, and a lot of API workflows to consider. Bugs and crashes everywhere down the user experience...but they're getting slowly stable.

Coming back to the real problem: I think it's actually the Vendor deals that Google did. Most of the manufacturers are almost impossible to flash without reverse engineering skills, and I think this is intentional. Having to wait more than 3 months to unlock a smartphone's bootloader because the manufacturer doesn't give a damn about you is just one of many examples.

I think that in order to "really free Android" the creation, flashing, updating of ROMs has to be standardized in a more homogenic way, because it would allow a graphical and easy-to-use software (that can flash a ROM without e.g. losing all /data) to be built; and more importantly - be usable by end-users without technical knowledge.

In my family I'm the guy that flashes LineageOS to their devices, because most of the terminology is so far away from the reality of most users that they have no single clue where to start. The amount of knowledge that is required to flash your device (and be Google-free, even in Apps with e.g. with Appwarden [2]) is absurd and as long as this is the case it will be a niche that's being ignored by politics (and potential regulation laws that would force Google's policies to change).

[1] https://lineage.microg.org/

[2] https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AppWarden

• drozer

  2 3,610 8.2 Python

  The Leading Security Assessment Framework for Android.

  

Drozer does (did?) this, except with Python rather than JS. https://github.com/FSecureLABS/drozer

• capacitor

  154 11,126 9.4 JavaScript

  Build cross-platform Native Progressive Web Apps for iOS, Android, and the Web ⚡️

  

Actually, ionic team recently released their native api solution as a library [0]. I think it might fit right in.

[0] https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor

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