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> If there's a sustainable and usable open solution, please comment. I'm looking at the Jolla/Sailfish phone. Seems to be a lot of ex-Nokia engineers trying to
by Brakenshire 13y ago
> If there's a sustainable and usable open solution, please comment.
I'm looking at the Jolla/Sailfish phone. Seems to be a lot of ex-Nokia engineers trying to reboot the N9/Maemo. They're also shipping with fork of Dalvik (though I don't know how well that will work now that many APIs are moving into Play Services). I couldn't say much about the details, but at the least I'm happier buying a phone from a company that makes its money from selling phone hardware and software, rather than from data aggregation and advertising.
- brian_cloutier 13y ago> now that many APIs are moving into Play Services Which APIs are you thinking of? As far as I know, only a couple location services are in play service for no good reason.
- Brakenshire 13y agoThere are examples on the recent ArsTechnica article: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/4/ http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-... As you say, advanced location services, and then Cloud Messaging (an upgraded Push Notifications API), and some APIs which do accelerometer/sensor analysis. Maps API, Play Store In-App purchasing and Play Games (user accounts, cloud saves etc for game developers) are already there. You're right to pull me up on the post, though. It's not really correct to talk about moving the APIs into Play Services, so much as developing what's there, and creating new interfaces with new, advanced features. But still, that doesn't alter the basic point, which is that a lot of Android Apps won't work on systems which do not have Play Services installed.