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> (Btw, another baffling trait of the Android ecosystem is how many well-known and widely-used hackish tools are closed-source: those from XDA and such. “Flash

> (Btw, another baffling trait of the Android ecosystem is how many well-known and widely-used hackish tools are closed-source: those from XDA and such. “Flash this binary to root your phone”, “install this blob for low-level customizations”. Eeeeh? I think I'll just disable all Google's misfeatures instead, for now.) It really seems like most of the android developer culture came from the oldschool windows freeware scene, which also has a baffling aversion to publishing source code.

commoner 6y ago
That is true, but there has been some progress on the adoption of the FOSS model in the Android developer community. The most commonly used Android recovery software, TWRP, is open source. https://github.com/TeamWin/Team-Win-Recovery-Project https://github.com/TeamWin/Team-Win-Recovery-Project The most popular Android rooting solution, Magisk, is also open source. All Magisk modules (plugins developed by the community) in the official repository are required to be open source. https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk https://github.com/Magisk-Modules-Repo/submission https://github.com/Magisk-Modules-Repo/submission