In August 2025, Google announced that starting next year, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google. This registration will involve:

  • Paying a fee to Google

  • Agreeing to Google’s Terms and Conditions

  • Providing government identification

  • Uploading evidence of the developer’s private signing key

  • Listing all current and future application identifiers

  • Here is the https://keepandroidopen.org/

  • weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 day ago

    An open Android is perfectly viable, it can even be hardforked if people are that unhappy with what Google did with it over the years.

    I think mobile Linux has functional advantages that can make it a lot more desirable, but there is no reason a truly open Android cannot exist.