Post #2372258
2026-04-01 12:13 UTC
@stonebear2@hachyderm.io No. Apps on Android are probably 90+% Google code by volume, because of the number of Google-supplied libraries used.
For example (because I have it to hand), the F-Droid app on Android still contains a lot of Google code. If you look at https://github.com/f-droid/fdroidclient/blob/master/gradle/libs.versions.toml and search for:
- "androidx."
- "com.google."
you'll see all the Google libraries the F-Droid app uses. This is entirely normal for Android development (the equivalent file for Pachli is https://github.com/pachli/pachli-android/blob/main/gradle/libs.versions.toml)
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@soaproot@sfba.social 2026-04-01 23:30
@pachli@mastodon.social To me the key distinction is not whether the code originated at Google, it is whether it locks in the user to Google. This is (almost, maybe completely) a function of whether it is under an open source license (a distinction you make elsewhere in the thread). @stonebear2@hachyderm.io