<story><title>MicroG – Re-implementation of proprietary Android apps and libraries</title><url>https://microg.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m glad this is still being maintained. It&amp;#x27;s a really great way to still run popular apps without having to go the entire F-Droid&amp;#x2F;OSS only route.&lt;p&gt;My current phone no longer charges and I&amp;#x27;ve already replaced so much stuff on it (back, camera, etc.) that I&amp;#x27;m deciding to go the KDE Plasma route, starting with a new old-stock Nexus 5X.&lt;p&gt;I hope the Purism 5 and Pinephone get released as well. I really want to go the Plasma route. If there is tooling I need that&amp;#x27;s missing, I hope it will force me to write and contribute apps that can help myself and others.&lt;p&gt;We need a real open source mobile operating system, not Google&amp;#x27;s cripple-ware.</text></comment>
<story><title>MicroG – Re-implementation of proprietary Android apps and libraries</title><url>https://microg.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>est31</author><text>Most of the proprietary Google apps on Android are actually just frontends to their proprietary network services like play, maps, gmail, gms, firebase, etc. Giving a replacement that deserves the name means that you have to re-create the associated network services which is the actually hard part because you won&amp;#x27;t just get shop owners to upload their opening hours to your service as well as google maps. That&amp;#x27;s an immense competitive moat that Google has built. It&amp;#x27;s on the territory where they are strongest, providing network services. And it&amp;#x27;s part of the reason why they could open source the Android OS in the first place: no competitor manages to replicate all of those network services.</text></comment>