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Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android (www.phonearena.com)
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[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 192 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Before anyone gets too excited, the headline is clickbait. The bigger Chinese phone brands are looking into de-googled Android. They are still going to use Android.

several prominent Chinese smartphone manufacturers, including Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and OnePlus, are exploring the possibility of developing versions of the Android operating system that do not rely on Google Mobile Services.

Chinese laptop makers are also in search of an OS that isn't Windows. Queue a race to prop Linux with Android support on that side of things.

[-] LMurch@thelemmy.club 75 points 1 week ago

de-Googled android sounds even better. The story is cooler than the title!

[-] eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 week ago

I like your spirit, but I don't think a Chinese equivalent to Google Play Services would be more desirable

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

de-Googled android sounds even better.

They are already degoogled for the Chinese market. What the Chinese Android variants to not have is a shared replacement for Play Services and a shared app store because everyone is doing their own thing for maps API, payment, ...

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I run that already with CalyxOS. I dig it.

[-] agitated_judge@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago

It also says:

It is currently unknown whether these companies would aim for compatibility with existing Android apps or follow the path of Huawei's latest HarmonyOS NEXT, which removes Android app support entirely

So, it's not clear yet.

[-] radiohead37@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 1 week ago

The US/China decoupling is happening everywhere.

[-] libra00@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

The front line is everywhere, there be no shelter here.

[-] cardfire@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

They got you searching for the thin line between entertainment and war.

[-] troed@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

Waydroid is pretty nice, integrating the Android apps as regular apps in the Linux UI.

[-] network_switch@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Waydroid is very close to greatness. My major hope there is Valve contributions to Waydroid for probable Steam Deck integration will make it incredibly seamless. There’s also the Android Translation Layer being developed

https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer

[-] knighthawk0811@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

de-googled Android you say?

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[-] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 week ago

KDE connect is already pretty sweet

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