Graphene OS has had just about enough of Google not doing more to make Android compatible with custom ROM projects.

TL;DR

  • Efforts like Graphene OS face increasing pressure from apps that refuse to run on non-standard Android.
  • The custom ROM project characterizes Google’s approach to device attestation as incomplete and flawed.
  • Graphene OS is prepared to take legal action if Google won’t let it pass Play Integrity checks.
  • archchan@lemmy.mlEnglish
    881·
    4 months ago

    I wish you could slap a custom rom on whatever phone you want and it Just Works™ like you can slap linux on any PC, but instead we get apps that potentially don’t work, locked bootloaders, push notifications tied to Google Play Services, and whatever else. You can put Lineage on the EU version of my phone but not the US version because fuck you. I hate how corpo centric phones have become. Like Google shouldn’t be allowed to hijack my entire screen for an ad or an app update. The entire modern definition of “sideloading” is BS, apps have access by default to things that they really don’t need, and why do I need to use ADB to purge your pre-installed bloatware ffs

    Not cool.

    • sfxrlz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      4 months ago

      Yeah it would’ve been like that for pcs too if they weren’t around for quite longer.

    • anon5621@lemmy.mlEnglish
      271·
      4 months ago

      We can get same experience quite soon on laptops too when arm laptops&desktop will arrive toensd users.It gonna be lock down same as phones nowdays.

        • oo1@lemmings.worldEnglish
          5·
          4 months ago

          risc-V laptops might compete with arm in a few years - maybe not for power users, but for most simpl use , or for those who will just ssh into real computer.

      • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        4 months ago

        How does one flash a ROM without unlocking the bootloader these days?

        Shouldn’t that break Android Verified Boot?

        A pure GSI image could use a Google key, I suppose, but others shouldn’t, right?

      • FinnFooted@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        I’m not an expert, but I had an expert explain that an unlocked boot loader is only risky if you think someone nefarious is physically able to get their hand on your phone. Is that true?

      • vividspecter@lemm.eeEnglish
        10·
        4 months ago

        ngl a unlocked bootloader would be a security nightmare

        So, like a desktop or laptop? Sounds fine to me.