GrapheneOS Accuses Google of Gatekeeping Android 17 Features and Security Fixes
GrapheneOS said the changes leave Samsung, Xiaomi and Motorola waiting until December for baseline patches and new app APIs.
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GrapheneOS calls out Google for Pixel-exclusive Android 17 QPR1 platform code
Privacy-focused mobile operating system project GrapheneOS has publicly accused Google of gatekeeping standard Android 17 platform security patches and new developer APIs behind the September Pixel Drop, leaving competing Android manufacturers and open-source forks waiting until December’s QPR2 release for critical fixes.
The Pixel have just received a new update of Android 17 with features and changes that are not coming at the same time to the rest of the Android ecosystem. The difference has caught the attention of GrapheneOS, which accuses Google of making other Android-based manufacturers and projects unable to incorporate them at the same speed. The controversy revolves around Android 17 QPR1, the update that Google has launched along with the September Pix…
Android remains open source on the brochure. In practice, the source code is waiting for months, security patches travel in reserved business class, and independent systems like GrapheneOS count doors that close.
Google this week released the Android 17 QPR1 update as part of the September Pixel Drop for its own Pixel devices. The GrapheneOS project, which is developing an alternative Android installation focused on privacy and security, criticized ... Read more
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