TL;DR

  • Google has made it harder to build custom Android ROMs for Pixel phones by omitting their device trees and driver binaries from the latest AOSP release.

  • The company says this is because it’s shifting its AOSP reference target from Pixel hardware to a virtual device called “Cuttlefish” to be more neutral.

  • While Google insists AOSP isn’t going away, developers must now reverse-engineer changes, making the process for supporting Pixel devices more difficult.

  • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I really want to give furios phone a shot. It’s apparently close to supporting my carrier.

    That and a sailfish phone. The community one though didn’t support my carrier (think it’s mainly EU specced only.)

    What I find missing most of the time though is any esim support. Makes me wonder if the hardware one that you can program an esim on works.