#Google will cut off independent developers to #Android if they do not register with Google first. This will kill independent platforms like @fdroidorg@floss.social and severely impede FLOSS devs from creating apps for Android.
Many KDE apps are deployed for Android: KDE Connect, Itinerary, Tokodon, and there’s even a test version of Krita for Android.
KDE calls on Google to reverse course and @keepandroidopen@techhub.social.
https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/
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I appreciate the effort, but this is sadly a waste of effort. Google will not listen to this, they have nothing to gain from it and the people that care about this are not with enough people. The only real solution is moving away from Android and AOSP entirely, Plasma Mobile exists and on distributions like postmarketOS it’s an actual big-tech free platform that the users control rather than a big corporation.