AOSP dialer and messaging apps are about to stop supporting, personal ROM developers and flash users face new challenges

News on June 14th, for IT House friends who have used the native Android system, they should be familiar with AOSP (Android Open Source Project) is very familiar. As an open source project for Android, AOSP allows manufacturers and individual developers to modify the system to adapt to different Android devices.

However, according to the code search announcement on the AOSP official website, the dialer and messaging applications (i.e. phone and text messaging applications) are no longer supported and will be removed from the source manifest at some point in the future. This means that future Android ROM packages built based on AOSP will no longer be pre-installed with dialers and messaging applications. Users will need to download the corresponding applications themselves to use basic calling and texting functions.

According to the editor’s understanding, this announcement will not have much impact on mainstream mobile phone manufacturers, because they usually use customized systems and do not use native dialers and messaging applications. This will undoubtedly bring additional trouble to individual ROM developers and flash users.

AOSP aims to provide developers with native Android system code that they can customize and use. However, as open source content gradually dwindles and Google integrates more and more features into its own framework, Android seems to be less and less open source than before. The change raises concerns about Android's openness.

Although AOSP is still an open source project, due to the above changes, people have begun to re-evaluate the openness of the Android system. For those users who like to customize and personalize their phone experience, they may need to work more to get the features they need and rely on third-party apps to make up for missing features in AOSP.

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