![]() ![]() For these reasons Android is described as being a “ look but don’t touch” kind of open.Īt this point, several popular open-source applications already require some of Google’s proprietary libraries to be installed. It gets worse: More and more libraries and APIs are only available on phones that run various Google apps pre-installed,Įffectively locking third-party apps to the Google ecosystem. ![]() While the core operating system is still released as part of the Android Open Source Project, the majority of core apps are not. It’s also on the way to becoming a proprietary operating system. The linux-based open-source mobile operating system Android is not only the most popular mobile operating system in the world, ![]() Project A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s proprietary Android user space apps and libraries. ![]()
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