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.
  • FutileRecipe@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    Even just being rooted on the stock Pixel rom is a fight.

    That, I can see being more of an issue than an unmodified, trusted 3rd party OS. If I remember right, rooting makes the device fail Verified Boot:

    It establishes a full chain of trust, starting from a hardware-protected root of trust to the bootloader, to the boot partition and other verified partitions including system, vendor, and optionally oem partitions.

    https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/verifiedboot

    • Unreliable@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      Fair point. At least with stock rooted as I said there’s ways around it and I can pass all play integrity checks and such.