AOSP project is coming to an end • Hacker News Board

Re: AOSP project is coming to an end

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Post by jlokier » Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 8:07 PM UTC

flanbiscuit wrote: post #30

pzo wrote: post #7

sad, was thinking to switch from iPhone to pixel 10 in few months once released exactly for the reason that is clean android and gives and escape hatch to use grapheneOS or lineageOS or calysOS. Any other android phone manufacturer that is supported by any of those projects? Most devices supported except pixel devices are few years old.

I'm moving away from Pixel Phones for my next Android. Going to switch back to Samsung. I currently have a Pixel 8 and my screen went completely green and glitchy yesterday (Google "android green screen", it's a hardware issue). It freaked me out because Im in the beginning of a long vacation with tickets held digitally in various apps and email. Thankfully I eventually figured out the solution which is ridiculous, w…

Fwiw, I've had a similar screen issue (turned green or magenta and glitchy, parts of the screen image disappearing, until one day it turned black) happen with two Samsung phones.

Re: AOSP project is coming to an end

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Post by transpute » Fri, Jun 13, 2025, 1:33 AM UTC

edude03 wrote: post #130

transpute wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was removed, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44255512

Hypervisor yeah but it’s still possible for code in debug mode - there is even an app that automates the process for you https://github.com/osy/Jitterbug (requires a paid dev account)

Thanks for the pointer. These are a bit worrying:

https://x.com/dontstealmacosy/status/1920875122690236509

https://x.com/khanhduytran0/status/1932322823336509673

Re: AOSP project is coming to an end

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Post by fithisux » Fri, Jun 13, 2025, 9:10 PM UTC

People became lazy because of the "godsent" involvement of corporates.

This involvement was not free and not guaranteed because of their profit/power motives.

I think it is the time for the community to find innovative solutions for the community and to guarantee involvement by the community.

There are boards out there and x64/arm64 motherboards that can run AOSP.

Someone has to take the task of co-ordinating the efforts and maintain good documentation on how people can contribute, in a friendly to the community manner. I think it is possible.

Re: AOSP project is coming to an end

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Post by DidYaWipe » Sat, Jun 14, 2025, 2:47 AM UTC

charcircuit wrote: post #29

DidYaWipe wrote: post #21

Can you even use the Play store on AOSP? I was interested in trying it (I don't use Android currently) but from what I gathered it seemed like a bit of a fraud (on Google's part) because it was fundamentally gimped.

AOSP does not include GMS or the Play Store. >it seemed like a bit of a fraud (on Google's part) because it was fundamentally gimped. AOSP is designed to be customized by vendors before they ship a device with it. Development of AOSP goes towards the shared OS pieces that actually get used and not towards things which would just get swapped out. Which is why the stock user space has not had much investment.

I'm calling it a fraud in terms of Android's initial promise to be the great "open source" OS that would free us all from vendor and telco tyranny.

As we all know, it has done nothing of the sort.

Re: AOSP project is coming to an end

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Post by NewJazz » Sun, Jun 15, 2025, 8:23 PM UTC

112233 wrote: post #125

xnx wrote: post #118

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> custom ODM-built smartphone I agree that this would be a crazy choice and doomed to fail.

could you elaborate why?

They are a niche OS and not everyone who uses graphene wants their hardware. They'll have low production quantity and thus very high costs.