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Project Mainline delivers key OS updates through Google Play — here's how it's changing

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I'm afraid this will end up the same way as Treble, and other similar efforts. On paper, this is a fantastic idea. In practice, most vendors will probably block these, or change the core distribution to the point where these are irrelevant, like Samsung or any Chinese market phones do. Not to mention that modifying anything on your device is becoming exceedingly difficult, depending on which vendor it's from

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Since they are adding it as a part of Google Play Services and Google certifies Google Play compatible devices, hopefully this will be a requirement if they want to include Google's playstore.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

A lot of it is actually already required. I can't find any comprehensive list, but each new release since Android 10 (when modular components / Mainline became a thing) adds new components and makes some older ones mandatory for Google Play devices.

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