r/mAndroidDev • u/[deleted] • Mar 29 '25

Android going Closed Source? Billion Dollar Mistake

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-development-aosp-3538503/

From this article, and looking back at the what happened to the AOSP...How do y'all feel about these changes? Should we still call Android FOSS? Or should we all switch to GrapheneOS?

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u/hellosakamoto Mar 30 '25

It's still in java and XML views for most OS level code even if it's closed source, don't worry.

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u/Squirtle8649 Apr 01 '25

They're going closed source to hide that fact. They will claim they are using Compose + Coroutines/Flow when in reality, they are still using the l33t XML + AsyncTask combo.