Mit der Version 10.x der Google-Kamera-App (Pixel Camera) hat Google offenbar eine harte Abhängigkeit von den Play Services eingeführt.
Mit der Version 10.x der Google-Kamera-App (Pixel Camera) hat Google offenbar eine harte Abhängigkeit von den Play Services eingeführt.
I’ve been through the best years of custom firmware. Back in the Jellybean/Kitkat days. My favourite was a fork of AOKP called LiquidSmooth.
Custom firmware comes at your own risk though. If something goes wrong, maybe you can find some help… but maybe you can’t.
Then you have guys who say “I’ll make custom firmware for your phone if the community buys me one.” The community buys them one from donations, and dude flips it on eBay the next day. I’ve seen that happen too.
There needs to be a commercial interest in private and available custom firmware for Android. Because otherwise it’s just a hobby.
You can buy the Fairphone 6 with /e/os preinstalled (directly from Fairphone), it costs more and the additional cost goes to the devs. Also they have their own optional paid private cloud services (it’s basically just a managed Nextcloud instance). Others like iodeOS sell various phones with iodeOS preinstalled at a markup and they have a subscription to unlock additional features (their software is fully open source and it still offers a complete experience without them).
…that was over a decade ago.