"look but don't touch" kind of Android openness

[Paul Kocialkowski]

Le mardi 30 septembre 2014 à 10:49 +0300, dimonik, dimonik a écrit :
> nice article:
> http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/

I am indeed worried to see the free software applications in AOSP being
discarded by Google as they develop their proprietary enhanced and
tied-to-their-services versions of these core system applications.

CyanogenMod was able to make up for it to some extent, with Apollo
replacing the old Music application, that didn't get any updates after,
maybe Android 2.3, along with their file manager (that never had any
counterpart in AOSP). There are however still pieces where we are
starting to lack quality from AOSP (due to no more updates), such as the
Browser and the Gallery (we are still using the Android 1.5 Gallery due
to the lack of free software graphics acceleration in Replicant).

It is becoming more and more urgent to write quality free applications
that integrate well with the system (that is, matching the standard
looks and feel of the rest of the system)! Some of these are already
listed in our tasks list:
http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/Tasks

Any help on that is welcome, it's only about writing a significant
amount of Java Android code: it's all doable.

-- 
Paul Kocialkowski, Replicant developer

Replicant is a fully free Android distribution

Website: http://www.replicant.us/
Redmine: http://redmine.replicant.us/
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