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Every developer wishing to offer applications on F-Droid will have to register their identities and package names to Google for Android devices to install their apps, regardless of the distribution platform (F-Droid, Obtainium, GitHub releases, etc.)

Half agree, there are official emulation apps on the play store right now. I literally just downloaded drastic on a off brand tablet.

If you have a compatible phone. As long as the allow those compatible phones to be made.

lineageos does support far more phone vendors; who knows what pixel phones will be like in the future

I'm hoping on fairphone to get graphene support 🤷

Isn't graphene having a challenging future because they have vendor locked themselves into pixel phones and said vendor is pulling the rug by not providing drivers going forward?

Graphene is also based on AOSP, which Google makes worse on purpose. I don't think they'll allow other devices to exist forever, or rather not in a way that's compatible with "real" Android (aka Google-infested). The only proper solution is to focus fully on the new Linux Mobile ecosystem and become independent from Google-maintained shit (and hardware - Graphene is based on Google Pixels, they literally exist at the mercy of Google). Otherwise they will fuck you over again and again. Not saying getting Linux Mobile on par will be easy, but it's our only true, permanent option aside from rejecting smartphones altogether.

Not until this pain is felt and developers see an opportunity

Android is already based on Linux. But in general there are FOSS phone OS's. GrapheneOS being the dominant player