• skuzz
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    1 year ago

    They won’t. It’s part of their “slowly-closed-source-all-of-Android” plan. The old messaging app used to be part of AOSP and you could read the source, how delightful that was.

    Would be a good time for a contender to start the third OS. In a few years, more of the population would have interest enough that it might actually get traction.

    • TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id
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      1 year ago

      They have abandoned the app and multitudes of others in favour to their closed source apps. Multiple Open Source apps exists to fill the gaps though.