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
    12•1 month ago

    Even just being rooted on the stock Pixel rom is a fight. It’s a constant cat and mouse game to pass basic and device integrity, but as of recently a lot of us have been able to pass strong integrity as well which has been nice.

    • @FutileRecipeOPEnglish
      3•1 month ago

      Even just being rooted on the stock Pixel rom is a fight.

      That, I can see being more of an issue than an unmodified, trusted 3rd party OS. If I remember right, rooting makes the device fail Verified Boot:

      It establishes a full chain of trust, starting from a hardware-protected root of trust to the bootloader, to the boot partition and other verified partitions including system, vendor, and optionally oem partitions.

      https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/verifiedboot

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 month ago

        Fair point. At least with stock rooted as I said there’s ways around it and I can pass all play integrity checks and such.