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> That's already happening today. That's not a hard fork. They always rebase on top of AOSP when there's a new AOSP source release
by MYEUHD 11mo ago
> That's already happening today.
That's not a hard fork.
They always rebase on top of AOSP when there's a new AOSP source release
- realusername 11mo agoNobody really want a hard fork, if you can't run Android apps, you might as well use a Linux distribution.
- palata 11mo agoWell the idea would be to run Android apps on the hard fork :-).
- realusername 11mo agoIf you can run Android apps then you need the same behavior as AOSP or I'm missing something? If you don't rebase from AOSP, the apps won't run pretty quickly.
- palata 11mo agoI actually wonder: if Google stopped pushing to AOSP and "the community" had to fork... the whole Android SDK/NDK is not open source, so I wonder if AOSP could survive at all without Google, even though it is open source.
- realusername 11mo agoI think if Google would stop pushing AOSP, there's a very high risk for Google that a consortium of manufacturers would continue themselves as they need it and they would lose control.
- palata 11mo agoWould they, though? Like Huawei forked for a while, and then they made their proprietary HarmonyOS. For a while I thought it was a missed opportunity to compete on a hard fork, but then I realised that Huawei probably cannot fork the Android SDK/NDK because it's not open source.
- charcircuit 11mo agoI think that is unlikely reality because from manufacturers perspective they don't get AOSP from the public. They get it from their chip provider like Qualcomm who gets private releases from Google. Everything is already set up such that people aren't using the public version, so the more likely reality is that the public version goes away, and google partners keep doing what they are doing. Maybe things are different on the Chinese side of things. So if it were to be created, it would be over there.
- charcircuit 11mo agoIt doesn't have to be. Most of Android is fine.
- raw_anon_1111 11mo agoOutside of China, to a first approximation no one once to use an Android device without Google Play Services.
- palata 11mo agoI would love to, for the record.
- palata 11mo agoThere is no reason to hard fork, as long as Google contributes to AOSP without breaking it. Regulators in the US decided that Android did not have to be split from Google, but they could theoretically decide that Google is not allowed to break AOSP to gain a competitive advantage. Not that it would matter: TooBigTech is too powerful to care about regulations anyway.