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Developers have to go out of their way to implement triggering Play Integrity API checks in their app and then retrieve the results to check on their services. They're putting a lo…

They don't need to do anything to support GrapheneOS. They only need to stop actively going out of the way to block it and any other alternative OS via the Play Integrity API. They…

The kernel drivers are all published in the GrapheneOS kernel repositories. A subset of the libraries/services in the vendor partition used with those drivers are closed source. Pi…

Fairphones are far from meeting the security requirements to run GrapheneOS and have chosen an incompatible path. It won't be available for their devices. https://discuss.grapheneo…

You should read https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134-devices-lacking-stand... about /e/ and also look at what they say about devices with strong privacy and security including bu…

/e/ has drastically worse privacy and security from the Android Open Source Project or especially and iPhone. It's not a step up from standard AOSP. It lags many months behind on m…

/e/ is the direct opposite of a privacy or security focused OS. It doesn't provide bare minimum standard privacy and security patches while setting an inaccurate Android security p…

Fairphone doesn't design or make their smartphones. The devices are designed and made by a large ODM. It's entirely feasible to use a modern SoC with current generation security fe…

No, but all of the kernel drivers are open source and always were. The closed source userspace libraries such as the Mali GPU library aren't a barrier to porting to a new kernel ve…

> GrapheneOS is security before anything else. GrapheneOS is a privacy project highly focused on usability and compatibility. Privacy depends on security so it has to put a lot of …

For security reasons, GrapheneOS uses ahead-of-time compilation for apps. The stock OS compiles the heavily used parts of the code dynamically in-memory and then does partial ahead…

GrapheneOS will eventually have a GrapheneOS RCS app, but for now RCS is fully supported via Google Messages and sandboxed Google Play: https://grapheneos.org/usage#rcs

RCS via Google Messages and sandboxed Google Play is fully supported on GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org/usage#rcs

It runs on tablets and folding devices. There hasn't been a recent tablet meeting the requires but the Pixel 9 Pro Fold and Pixel 10 Pro Fold are supported. Both of those are phone…

Here's an example of what they're responding to with inaccurate personal attacks: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116353973732143171 GrapheneOS posts factual information debu…

There are a lot of devices with the ability to install another OS and lock the device with verified boot, but none with the required updates and security features other than Pixels…

It's a fork of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) with major privacy/security improvements and alternatives to Google apps/services. The massive set of changes needs to be port…

It isn't only developed for Pixels. Pixels are currently the only devices permitting an alternate OS with the required updates and security features. GrapheneOS has a partnership w…

See https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa... for banking apps. Anything that's not a banking or government app is extremely likely to work. Very few other ap…

GrapheneOS exists to greatly improve the privacy and security of an existing open source OS project. Android Open Source Project has good privacy and security as a starting point. …

Those are much less private and secure than the Android Open Source Project on Pixels without the major privacy and security improvements of GrapheneOS. Those aren't privacy or sec…

Ubuntu Touch is drastically less private and secure than AOSP let alone GrapheneOS. Volla's devices don't come anywhere close to meeting the update and security requirements for Gr…

Android Auto is fully supported and shouldn't be any more flaky than it is on the stock OS. It's often flaky due to a bad USB connection or problematic implementation in the car. T…

Using Sandboxed Google Play doesn't defeat the purpose of using GrapheneOS and neither does using Google apps. It does not exist specifically to avoid Google apps or services. It e…

Yes, those are all compatible and the only way to use them is as regular sandboxed apps without any special access. Sandboxed Google Play can be installed in the profiles of your c…