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>Apple has nothing like the AOSP, which love-it-or-lump-it is the best thing Android has going for it today. ELI5, what's AOSP? Is it like, base android witho
by wing-_-nuts 4y ago
>Apple has nothing like the AOSP, which love-it-or-lump-it is the best thing Android has going for it today.
ELI5, what's AOSP? Is it like, base android without hardware drivers? Does this make it easier to maintain 3rd party android roms?
- smoldesu 4y ago> Is it like, base android without hardware drivers? Does this make it easier to maintain 3rd party android roms? More or less. The AOSP is the free portion of the Android codebase (licensed in Apache) and actually accounts for the vast majority of Android code you run. Google then adds their services to the OS and preinstalls it on most phones. Most people derive custom roms from a combination of AOSP code and official (albeit proprietary) drivers.