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Android platform, what a mess
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SiliconWizard:
I remember an older discussion about Android not being open source, and I admit I never really got why some consider it is not. There's possibly a good reason, but I just failed to understand it.
eti:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on February 18, 2022, 06:08:17 pm ---I remember an older discussion about Android not being open source, and I admit I never really got why some consider it is not. There's possibly a good reason, but I just failed to understand it.

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Ithat misses out the very parts that make it. Anywhere near usable, IE, Google play services etc.

Lol
SiliconWizard:
You can perfectly use Android without any Google service.
eti:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on February 18, 2022, 06:49:16 pm ---You can perfectly use Android without any Google service.

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And you can use a car without wheels to keep chickens in.

This ridiculous obsession with source code is meaningless.
janoc:

--- Quote from: eti on February 18, 2022, 06:43:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on February 18, 2022, 06:08:17 pm ---I remember an older discussion about Android not being open source, and I admit I never really got why some consider it is not. There's possibly a good reason, but I just failed to understand it.

--- End quote ---

Ithat misses out the very parts that make it. Anywhere near usable, IE, Google play services etc.

Lol

--- End quote ---

There are plenty of devices that are build on "ungooglified" Android, e.g. pretty much most of the cheap Chinese phones.

That you are picking on the lack of Google services - but that without device drivers which are mostly completely proprietary binary blobs on these embedded platforms you won't even get an OS (any OS, not just Android) to boot or do anything useful doesn't bother you?

At the same time you are talking about Apple products as an alternative - yet Apple devices are literally completely locked down, proprietary to literally the last screw and nobody except Apple can make one!

Your rant about Java - just yawn. Android isn't running a JVM but Google's own virtual machine since ages ago and development for it doesn't require you to write applications in Java either. Yes, you can even run native code on Android if you really wanted but given that Android isn't running only on ARM CPUs, it would be most likely more trouble than it is worth unless you were planning to only ever deploy on a single device.

Pretty pointless troll/rant, IMO.
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