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by ry167 3360 days ago
Android is open source: https://source.android.com/
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Synaesthesia 3360 days ago
Portions of it, lots of it is not.
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pawadu 3360 days ago
If you think that, how do you define Android?
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Synaesthesia 3360 days ago
There's AOSP admire android. AOSP is open source which is some components of the Android system - however a lot of Android is not just AOSP. A lot of it is Google web services and other proprietary stuff.
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floatboth 3360 days ago
You don't have to use "Google Android" to use Android. LineageOS + F-Droid + microG is a very good setup, I use it on my phone.

The real problem is the hardware driver blobs.

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pawadu 3360 days ago
But many of these services are also available on iOS.

Would you still consider them part of Android?

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