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Signs of life for the "Find My Device" network launch?

Edit: Apparently this was covered a week ago: https://lemdro.id/post/1356956

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dialer and message applications were not being used by anyone, including custom ROMs, so Google debloated and removed it.

Fast pair was removed because no other OEM was using it, so Google debloated.

https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/111075765524836238

You're acting like they're being malicious. They aren't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Saying that no one was using the Dialer and Message applications is a straight-up lie. What else do you think are de-google ROMs using? GrapheneOS, for example, is still using it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Literally every other popular custom ROM was using their own, updated, better fork of the Google dialer and message app.

Not sure why Google would continue to bloat AOSP just for GrapheneOS. That's ridiculous.