A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space
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I've been using a custom AOSP build with MicroG for a few months now and it actually works pretty well _if your goal is to avoid Google_. What I mean by that is that if your goal is to use Android Pay, Chrome, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Drive, Google Fi etc. and somehow retain some level of privacy, MicroG isn't going to help. It doesn't fully implement _all_ of Play Services' APIs. The point of MicroG is to make Android…
This is great. This can be shipped on custom ROMs with only attribution required, correct? Can we (ROM builders and developers) incorporate this at the current state of the project?
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-03-28 | MicroG Project: A re-implementation of Google’s Android apps and librariesFirst breakout | ProfDreamer | 123 | 16 |
| 2017-06-28 | MicroG Project: re-implementation of Google’s proprietary Android user space | da02 | 3 | 0 |
| 2017-12-30 | MicroG Project: Free re-implementation of Android user space apps and libraries | billpollock | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-10-31 | A Free as in Freedom Implementation of Google Play Services | adds68 | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-05-13 | A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Android user space apps and libraries | whalabi | 4 | 0 |
| 2020-11-30 | A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user spaceHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | doener | 790 | 187 |