First of all, did you disable the calculator? This app is an amazing feat of intellect, and should be retained due to its fundamental worth of ingenuity.
https://medium.com/@jnebos/the-humble-android-calculator-4f1...
Second, the kernel itself presents attack surfaces. It is important to accept updates, when they are offered.
As I read down the readme, I kept saying to myself "ok, that's reasonable," right up until I saw the 300GB free space requirement to build the image. Is that really what is needed to build an image for a phone or is this a one-off?
android-latest-release branch (Android 16 QPR2) for lunch target aosp_cf_x86_64_phone-trunk_staging-eng (Cuttlefish emulator):
> du -hs --exclude /aosp/android-latest-release/out /aosp/android-latest-release
132G /aosp/android-latest-release
> du -hs /aosp/android-latest-release/out
127G /aosp/android-latest-release/out
So ~130GB each for the compiled artifacts and the source code. It's heavy, and at times can easily fill 64GB of RAM during the build.
Android build system is a heavy Rube Goldberg machine, it's amazing it even works at all
My understanding is that yes Android build requirements are... significant. Given that a gentoo system can self-host in like <10% of that space, I am somewhat mystified how it got here, but yes that's "normal".
Yes, that's normal for an Android build. Maybe even on the lightweight side as far as build requirements. I agree that it's an absurd about of space.
Building Android is heavy, and so is Chrome.
Android uses like 7 build systems and repo is like 50 submodules deep.
> Create a stripped-down "dumbphone" version of LineageOS for your Google Pixel without giving up the camera quality and touchscreen of a smartphone.
Dumb interface for smartphones, unrelated to dumbphones. Not that it was likely to be anything else. Pretty neat.
What in your mind makes a dumbphone a dumbphone? I see many for sale with cameras and touchscreens, even app support.
I thought this was going to be an OS for actual dumbphones. Had me hoping I would have a reason to dig out my childhood Sony Ericsson W810.
> What will not work when using a phone running this build?
> RCS messaging
> (The points above apply to any phone with an unlocked bootloader, including ones running official LineageOS builds)
RCS really depends on attestation now? What the fuck?
Unsure about details, but it must at least not require Google Play attestation because Graphene supports it now
RCS also goes through Google servers. I don't see much point in using it.