Google’s latest AOSP move spells doom for custom ROMs on Pixel phones
Custom ROM developers: brace for impact
In March of this year, Google revealed it is changing its Android development process and will no longer make real-time code commits to public AOSP branches. The change barely had any public or development impact. But now, with the release of Android 16, Google is making a bigger change to AOSP that will affect the development of custom ROMs for Pixels.
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