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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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Google's dev registration plan will end the F-Droid project (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 week ago by zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

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[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

we’re either going to have to fork AOSP and make graphene and lineage operating systems in their own right with no connection to the previous Android

How feasible is this? Very, I hope.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Not sure. Forking AOSP itself wouldnt really be the problem. The bigger issue would be security patches and that over time the code bases would severely diverge.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

It's very feasible, but some of us will probably run old GrapheneOS Pixels or dumb flip phones for several years while the work gets done.