cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/45277582
Opening my weather app this morning I was greeted by this warning:
Google has announced that, starting in 2026/2027, all apps on certified Android devices will require the developer to submit personal identity details directly to Google. Since the developers of this app do not agree to this requirement, this app will no longer work on certified Android devices after that time.
It’s the first time I hear about this, seems to be about:
Cirrus app: Github
Was this a big thing I somehow missed? I hope more devs will follow suit.
Degoogled android ROMs will not have this restriction, as they will just have googles verification system removed. So until linux for mobile is a bit more ready you can still use graphene/lineage/etc.
So long as you can still have GrapheneOS and others. Google’s handling of pushing updates and device tree shows how fragile that actually is. Linux phone is going to be the best solution so long as Google runs Android
Aparrently they are trying to close the Sharing off android.
They can’t actually do that as vendors build off of the sources.
Luckily we have other vendors like Motorola who are very supportive of custom roms
Idk if I’d call it “very supportive”, Motorola voids your warranty to install custom ROMs.
The issue with that is that fewer and fewer phones have unlockable bootloaders.