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Once in spring and once in fall. Ever since the first version of Android was released in 2008, anyone who wanted to could access the source code of the operating system. However, Google has now ...

Librephone is an effort to reverse engineer proprietary code needed for your phone to run. While projects like LineageOS prioritize open-source code, some binary “blobs” have so far been necessary.

Google's default Android apps aren't bad, but they're not great either. The file manager is still very basic and lacks FTP features, the media player only supports standard formats, and the ...