That is absolutely not a blow to ROMs by any means. There are plenty of good alternatives. For messaging, alternatives are even better. Dialer apps are just basic ones buy they do exists.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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I do think it will have ramifications in the long run. Google is slowly closing the Android source. At some point it will affect core functions.
Let's hope that Linux Phone OSes will be able to be daily drivers until then.
That is why we need to work towards having postmarketOs and similarprojectso going.
LineageOS already maintains these apps from what i understand
just google doing google things
I'm amazed that Google was able to get away with dumping in developing Android.
These apps are open source, so a OS developer should be able to forward port the deprecated app into their newer OS release. Kinda fear monger a bit here
Apparently they've been doing this for a long time, because Google haven't been maintaining it. When the forks have submitted improvements upstream they've been rejected. LineageOS has been running its own dialer for years, which many ROMs use.
I use simple SMS anyway, I honestly would love to see a modern dailer for degoogled android. I wonder if we could get the little verified caller checkmarks on a Foss dailer app
Imagine if the dialer could sync a region specific spam blocklist
Why? Just use los replacement
Well, we have the Simple Mobile Tools which are FOSS and better, so not a huge deal so far imo.
Also nobody is preventing to de-deprecate the apps anyway, right? I get that AOSP is still a predominantly Google thing, but it's not "theirs" theirs.
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