<story><title>LineageOS Android Distribution</title><url>https://lineageos.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wongarsu</author><text>LineageOS is great, my one complaint is that it is almost never available for the phones I own. You basically have to get phones according to their popularity in a certain subgroup: for example currently one HTC model and two LG models are supported, but close to everything from OnePlus.&lt;p&gt;I know I can get unofficial builds, put apart from the sometimes quite severe missing features (calling or camera not or only partially working) I don&amp;#x27;t want to trust random people on a forum to provide a build of an OS without including malware. It just looks like a prime target for all the intelligence services of the world, and a nice target for hackers. With official builds there&amp;#x27;s at least some accountability somewhere to mitigate this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gregmac</author><text>&amp;gt; I don&amp;#x27;t want to trust random people on a forum to provide a build of an OS without including malware&lt;p&gt;Why is it some communities still work like this? With Android dev, sometimes there&amp;#x27;s even some source on GitHub, but still a forum post is the main place to find the latest version, with the actual download from some questionable-looking download site. If you&amp;#x27;re lucky they include sha hashes at least.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve installed a handful of custom ROMs on 3 or 4 devices - most recently resurrecting my old TF101 to run modern Firefox - but I don&amp;#x27;t think I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen anything like an automated build for one of these. Really, many don&amp;#x27;t even post source code.&lt;p&gt;Is there anyone doing this type of Android dev in a &amp;quot;modern&amp;quot; best practices way like most other open source (public git, CI, maybe issue tracker and pull requests)? Why doesn&amp;#x27;t this catch on more?</text></comment>
<story><title>LineageOS Android Distribution</title><url>https://lineageos.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wongarsu</author><text>LineageOS is great, my one complaint is that it is almost never available for the phones I own. You basically have to get phones according to their popularity in a certain subgroup: for example currently one HTC model and two LG models are supported, but close to everything from OnePlus.&lt;p&gt;I know I can get unofficial builds, put apart from the sometimes quite severe missing features (calling or camera not or only partially working) I don&amp;#x27;t want to trust random people on a forum to provide a build of an OS without including malware. It just looks like a prime target for all the intelligence services of the world, and a nice target for hackers. With official builds there&amp;#x27;s at least some accountability somewhere to mitigate this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unicornporn</author><text>&amp;gt; my one complaint is that it is almost never available for the phones I own&lt;p&gt;This is the reason that I&amp;#x27;ve only bought Google&amp;#x27;s handsets. Easy to unlock and always excellent ROM support. Flawless LineageOS support and I have also very good experiences of GrapheneOS (former CopperheadOS).&lt;p&gt;I buy them when the next model (or the model after that) is out for a fraction of the price. Couldn&amp;#x27;t care less about getting the latest phone these days. At this level they&amp;#x27;re pretty much all the same to me.&lt;p&gt;Only thing to look out for is Google&amp;#x27;s crappy long term support and security fixes (which even GrapheneOS relies on). For my current Pixel 1 device OS updates were supposed to run out over a year ago. Still, Android 10 was &amp;quot;just&amp;quot;  released for the Pixel 1...&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;grapheneos.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;grapheneos.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>