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Google seems to have fully bought into the philosophy that the user is a security threat. The devices are no longer about protecting the user from other threat

Google seems to have fully bought into the philosophy that the user is a security threat. The devices are no longer about protecting the user from other threats, but also about protecting the device from the user. Termux is the type of application that enables the user to do stuff that the Google designers don't think is safe (like send SMS messages programmatically!) so maintaining the APIs it depends on is not a priority. I doubt anyone at Google is trying to break Termux, but they don't care about power users and they think Android should function like their iPhone and treat users accordingly.

pjmlp 2y ago
This is the only thing that is officially supported on the NDK, https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis If it isn't on that list, it works by luck and can be broken on any device or Android update.
- Dylan16807 2y ago
  So you agree? Overly limited list to keep the user out of "trouble"? If that's not what you mean, I'm not sure how your link works as a reply to a comment on Google's motivation.