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Off the top of my head: - Not Google - More hackable - Qt + QML looks really cool to me. Android is decidedly not the be-all-end-all of mobile OSes, and an
by PeCaN 10y ago
Off the top of my head:
- Not Google
- More hackable
- Qt + QML
looks really cool to me. Android is decidedly not the be-all-end-all of mobile OSes, and an alternative project is always nice.
- defiancedigital 10y agoCompletely agree !
- bitmapbrother 10y agoYou realize this is based off of Android 5.1, right?
- Johan-bjareholt 10y agoIt says on the first page that it is based on OpenEmbedded, so it's pretty much a linux distro from scratch
- bitmapbrother 10y agoI'm looking at their GutHub repository and pretty much the majority of the big boy code was lifted from Android. AsteroidOS/android_system_core AsteroidOS/android_frameworks_native AsteroidOS/android_bionic AsteroidOS/android_external_skia AsteroidOS/android_hardware_libhardware AsteroidOS/android_build While the fluff such as the following is all theirs: AsteroidOS/asteroid-calculator
- petecox 10y agoMost alternative firmwares bootstrap AOSP to some degree in some way for hardware support or adb/fastboot to shoe-horn an alternative ROM. Reusing some low level code does not an Android make.