Keep Android Open
In August 2025, Google announced that starting next year, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google.
This registration will involve:
- Paying a fee to Google
- Agreeing to Google’s Terms and Conditions
- Providing government identification
- Uploading evidence of an app’s private signing key
- Listing all current and future application identifiers
Sign the open letter. And get active to help oppose the enactment of the policy in other ways listed on the website. Are there any more ways to oppose this?
It’s better than nothing, innit?
Depends on your threat model to be honest. Android (grapheneOS) has significantly more security measures than a Linux phone. Android was designed with mobile security threats in mind from the ground up
I think I like the buy Google Pixel, to degoogle. Microsoft really should have done better wuth there platform. USA lost Nokia & Windows together.
id rather not kneecap my UX on my mobile device for just more of the same issues but i get to have linux on my phone, and do mostly nothing.