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It's a fork of Android, so it's not Google-free.
by johnklos 6y ago
It's a fork of Android, so it's not Google-free.
- swiley 6y agoyes. Anything Android based is absolutely dominated by Google. At this point it probably takes less manpower to maintain a Gnome/KDE/Lomiri based distro for your platform than Google-free Android.
- unethical_ban 6y agoYour definition of google-free: Completely zero code input, developer overlap, or potential design influence by Google My definition of google-free as it relates to phones, and I think the more common one: No callbacks to any Google service such as Play store, google cloud messaging, or any of Google's usual default android applications.
- FieryBinary 6y agoBy that definition, Linux, Chromium, and lots of other software isn't Google-free. But that's ridiculous. Android does not contain any tracking code, and at most uses Google servers as the default for network connectivity tests, etc. which you can change. Versions of Android running on actual phones often have tracking, but this is not related to Android itself and is largely about Google Play Services.