Graphene OS has had just about enough of Google not doing more to make Android compatible with custom ROM projects.

TL;DR

  • Efforts like Graphene OS face increasing pressure from apps that refuse to run on non-standard Android.
  • The custom ROM project characterizes Google’s approach to device attestation as incomplete and flawed.
  • Graphene OS is prepared to take legal action if Google won’t let it pass Play Integrity checks.
    • @[email protected]English
      8•4 months ago

      It doesn’t allow direct connection. You have to dick about with a stupid app to put it in “speaker mode” first.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•4 months ago

        Damn that sucks!!! I wish there was a way to sandbox older apps. I’ve ran into the same issue with old apps before.

      • @LinusSexTipsEnglish
        2•4 months ago

        Gives me Sonos vibes.

        I won a Sonos speaker years ago, thing needed (from memory) an app to switch to AUX mode. The speaker sounded great but I didn’t want to install an app just to use the thing.

        In a grand spectacle my ex’s cat kicked a potplant off a windowsill into our fish tank. That shorted a power board, we didn’t have breakers (ceramic / wire fuses) which ended up killing the speaker.

        Honestly as nice of a speaker it was, good riddance.