Both The Verge and 9to5 are citing this as the original source:
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-development-...
Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starting next week
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Re: Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starting next week
#32I hope they make it closed source and make us much money out of it as possible for shareholders that is their job and their duty, why are they giving this away for free they have already captured market share by claiming opensource and building a community now all they have to do is make it proprietary and the old opensource version slowly wither and become unstable, then they can charge money for the operating syste…
It's a bit disturbing that that might be the plan though.
Isn't the plan to move Android to Fuchsia eventually (and seamlessly)?
Re: Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starting next week
#33I hope they make it closed source and make us much money out of it as possible for shareholders that is their job and their duty, why are they giving this away for free they have already captured market share by claiming opensource and building a community now all they have to do is make it proprietary and the old opensource version slowly wither and become unstable, then they can charge money for the operating syste…
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Re: Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starting next week
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a bit disturbing that that might be the plan though.
But they can already do that, because most people and apps (outside China and maybe some other regions) expect Google Play/Play Services to be present.
What apps? I think only android auto requires it. All the rest works just fine with occasional glitches.
Of course that most probably greatly depends of what kind of apps you are using but usually microG is just enough.
Re: Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starting next week
#35This headline really is misleading. The source will still be released, it just means that the work leading up to a release will be in private. IMO, there's nothing wrong with that, since it's likely that a lot of the intermediate com mediates are likely just noise.
If I understand correctly, it sounds a bit like Valve and SteamOS. They publish the source, but they optimize for their internal developers and tools, not for easy source access by anonymous members of the public. Valve has been publishing its source as tarballs, not git commits (hence, projects like Jovian and Evlav reconstructing it in GitHub).
Re: Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starting next week
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
No OEM is interested in AOSP builds, because no one is going to buy an Android phone without Google Play Services, which is required for many popular apps to work (banking, games). There were some Chinese OEMs that ran an Android build and have unofficial ways to get Play Store working (Boox eReaders for example), but those are increasingly rare now, as years of sanctions has led to Huawei de-Googling itself fast, wi…
Kindle Fire? Your smart TV? Your car infotainment? Android is everywhere even without Google
The Horizon OS for Oculus headsets too.
Re: Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starting next week
#37This really reminds me of Open Solaris. > We will no longer distribute source code for the entirety of the Solaris operating system in real-time In the case of Open Solaris, the code never came out from that point onwards. For Android, the likely end goal is to do the bare minimum of distributing only copyleft code that they don't own copyright to. Until those get replaced with a closed alternative. https://www.youtu…
Can someone just fork it? Like MySQL was forked into MariaDB?
Re: Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starting next week
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a bit disturbing that that might be the plan though.
But they can already do that, because most people and apps (outside China and maybe some other regions) expect Google Play/Play Services to be present.
Amazon maintains their Fire devices with their Android fork.
Huawei maintains their Android fork that runs without the Play store.
Google will not be able to close Android/AOSP without triggering a well-funded fork.
Re: Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starting next week
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
But they can already do that, because most people and apps (outside China and maybe some other regions) expect Google Play/Play Services to be present.
What apps? I think only android auto requires it. All the rest works just fine with occasional glitches. Of course that most probably greatly depends of what kind of apps you are using but usually microG is just enough.
No, most "geo" applications depend on Google services and will crash without them. Local authority transit apps, etc.
Re: Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starting next week
#40This headline really is misleading. The source will still be released, it just means that the work leading up to a release will be in private. IMO, there's nothing wrong with that, since it's likely that a lot of the intermediate com mediates are likely just noise.
Which is bad since all the forks will be behind at least few weeks, months maybe.
And think about all the merge conflicts you have to resolve after 3 months of code changes.