Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open Source Project. The new APIs are currently exclusive to the Pixel OS and aren't available to other Android OEMs.
https://developer.android.com/sdk/api_diff/37.1/changes
Yes, and the biggest thing Android has going for it in terms of security is the fact that everything runs with under a strict sandbox and permission model.
You could absolutely build a cohesive, secure Linux system using Flatpak to acheive something similar. It will still have rough edges and holes, but if GOS devs put in the same amount of effort into making Linux secure as they have with AOSP, we could get it to where it needs to be.
Again, agreed, but hindsight is 20/20. I’m not sure if when they started in 2016, they would’ve believed that by this time, things would be going so badly. That said, I suppose we all really should have assumed they’d be enshittified as soon as google removed “Don’t be evil” from their policy in 2018.
For me, it’s been pretty obvious that Android was going this direction for almost a decade, but any time people bring up mobile Linux, the GOS devs still bend over backwards to defend building for the dying AOSP ecosystem.
Yes, and the biggest thing Android has going for it in terms of security is the fact that everything runs with under a strict sandbox and permission model.
You could absolutely build a cohesive, secure Linux system using Flatpak to acheive something similar. It will still have rough edges and holes, but if GOS devs put in the same amount of effort into making Linux secure as they have with AOSP, we could get it to where it needs to be.
Again, agreed, but hindsight is 20/20. I’m not sure if when they started in 2016, they would’ve believed that by this time, things would be going so badly. That said, I suppose we all really should have assumed they’d be enshittified as soon as google removed “Don’t be evil” from their policy in 2018.
For me, it’s been pretty obvious that Android was going this direction for almost a decade, but any time people bring up mobile Linux, the GOS devs still bend over backwards to defend building for the dying AOSP ecosystem.