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by kuschku 3121 days ago
Android is an OS – specifically, the AOSP projects result, the Google Play services are only available in the Google Play distribution of Android.

So Amazon can’t do it in their Android apps, unless they create a special version for Google Play Android.

But Amazon – like many other developers, including myself – refuses to create different versions for different Android distributions.

Other Android distributions that are also excluded include MIUI, Replicant, LineageOS, CopperheadOS, and Androidx86.
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dragonwriter 3120 days ago
> Android is an OS – specifically, the AOSP projects result,

No, Android is a trademark which designates the branded, proprietary-but-open-core OS developed by Google and licensed to handset and other device makers.

AOSP is an open source codebase which forms part of the codebase of Android.

> So Amazon can’t do it in their Android apps, unless they create a special version for Google Play Android

There is no such thing; that's just Android. Pop

> Other Android distributions that are also excluded include MIUI, Replicant, LineageOS, CopperheadOS, and Androidx86.

No, those are other AOSP-derived OSs, which can run some subset of Android apps.

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