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by greyw 619 days ago
We need real FOSS Android. I wish people would start building from there.
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There's a lot of building going on. Waydroid builds their own highly specialized Android derivative. As does Replicant, Calyx, Graphene, /e/foundation, Lineage, microg, and probably lots more in the Foss space alone.
What do you want that LineageOS (plus F-Droid) doesn't do?
Banking apps come to mind.
This is the only reason my phone's not running Lineage. I need those apps mainly for 2fa (some banks don't give me any alternative) or for one or two with no web app.

It feels like a total artificial duopoly, you only get to use your essential service on android or ios.

No other "real FOSS Android" is going to pass SafetyNet either, though
what would a banking app do that a bank website can't, exactly?
Many bank websites require bank apps or hardware tokens to login.
IIRC some finance apps either don't have web sites that can perform financial transaction, or are lacking a number of features of the mobile app. Cash App and Venmo used to be some of the worst offenders, but have improved in recent times.