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I'm in China now and see Android phones on sale. A lot of google services are blocked, youtube, plus, the maps app, and others, but Android is alive and well.

• wisty 15y ago
  developer.android.com was blocked in China. That didn't stop companies making the phones and installing the OS (through a third party or with special permission, or most likely through a proxy). There was some fork in Chinese, which could be accessed. Also, I think the App store was blocked, and a Chinese App store set up instead.
  • chucknthem 15y ago
    When was this? I'm able to visit developer.android.com fine here...even go to my android market publisher profile to publish apps.
    • wisty 15y ago
      There's google groups posts about this dating from 24 months ago. Also, python.org/downloads was also blocked (but not the rest of python.org). If you go to python.org now, there's a page labeled "Downloads" in Chinese for Chinese downloads which is not blocked. I guess it's easier to create a mirror than lobby to get a page removed from the banned list. It's weird though. I think there was some Chinese version of android.com, but I don't know how close to the original it was.