I see. Valve's Android virtualisation is called "Lepton" and it's a fork of Waydroid.
I wonder where they're going with this. I know Valve is a game platform. From that I suspect that they will use Lepton to bypass the Google Play ecosystem and have their own Android Lepton Play store.
But wouldn't it just be Android games on Linux, and not other apps?
As I understood, they will roll this out through "Google Play Services" and not the Android OS. So, any device with Google Play Services will be affected.
I read on the keepandroidopen github that the "advanced flow" (for "side-loading") is delivered through Google Play Services, not the Android OS, meaning Google can modify, restrict, or remove it at any time without an OS update and without any user consent.
So, yes, I think you're right, GrapheneOS, PostmarketOS, /e/OS and the likes would be safe (for now) since they don't have the "Google Play Services". I read MicroG is a way to get core functionalities of the Play Services API.
For Linux phone, the Jolla phone has peeked my interest. But I would be missing Android apps, unless there is virtualization to run those??
Yeah, I was thinking might be better to get a phone developed in the EU. I'm considering Jolla phone (Finnish) and FairPhone (Dutch). Or else a Pixel with GrapheneOS (but then it's Google again :/).
Also, I checked it months ago. I found it dodgy. The owner has several companies registered in the Estonian business register.
I don't recall exactly what I found that was dodgy, I just remember it was. I didn't trust using the email services. Better use more conventional services like Proton or Tuta.
I see. Valve's Android virtualisation is called "Lepton" and it's a fork of Waydroid.
I wonder where they're going with this. I know Valve is a game platform. From that I suspect that they will use Lepton to bypass the Google Play ecosystem and have their own Android Lepton Play store.
But wouldn't it just be Android games on Linux, and not other apps?