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Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] 26 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Im waiting so long for that, please any chinese brand please do it, free us from android and google

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Chinese androids are fine since they have nothing to do with Google.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    An android phone cannot have "nothing to do with google" because android is literally made by Google.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    true but Huawei has this:

    HarmonyOS NEXT (鸿蒙星河版) is Huawei's self-developed, pure operating system, marking a complete break from Android by dropping support for APKs and relying solely on native apps built with ArkUI/ArkCompiler

    it still allows you to run APKs in a container like EasyAbroad or DroiTong though

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Chinese ROMs in China are just AOSP with Chinese customisation. There is no Google Play Services and some vendors like Huawei are using it to transition to their own OS like Harmony OS. They're not dependent on Google in China.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Same.

    Nexphone isn't this, at least not currently, but I could see it lurching in this direction if it gets enough traction. Though no small part of me has the vaporware detector going off with this because it's promising a lot and at a very competitive price so I'm hesitant to put any hope in it until more info gets revealed.

    We really ended up on the wrong timeline when the boat sailed on the Ubuntu Edge 💔

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