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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 379 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] agitated_judge@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 months 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.

[–] troed@fedia.io 7 points 2 months ago

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

[–] pycorax@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

So like how Huawei was hyping up their new mobile OS which was really just skinned AOSP?

[–] atthecoast@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This was a transitional stage, HarmonyOS Next is running a fully different kernel and runtime

[–] pycorax@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well there's that, but I was talking more about how they were selling it when hey first announced it. My point is that with stuff like this, the companies have lied before. I'll believe it when I see it.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

HarmonyOS is not AOSP anymore. It does not run Android apps anymore.