> Really cool! Does NFC work? How serious is the webview issue, does it > affect all apps that embedd a web browser, or just the standalone > web browser? Does firefox work on your build?
I do not use NFC and never tried to get it working with Replicant, so this would be something you could report back if you try it out. Webview affects all apps that embed a browser view. But I don't see it as a serious issue. It should be doable to patch the chromium source code, but it takes some experience and time. Doing security patches could quickly become cumbersome if we have to stay with the older version. Firefox does still not work. Personally, I don't care for Firefox on Android anymore. The binaries, that come directly from Mozilla, are built against the proprietary google play services, so they are not free software. The F-Droid folks are trying for a very long time now to get their own build working which would be compiled with only free software. They were successful for some time, but recent versions are trouble again. That's why you currently only find the binaries from Mozilla in F-Droid. OrFox could be a solution in the future, but I suspect that there will still be problems with EGL. > I thought that a lot of builtin functionality had been removed from > AOSP for 6.x and replaced by proprietary apps and services from Google, > is 6.x without non-free apps as functional as replicant 4.2? I am not missing any functionality so far. I had to readd the Gallery and Camera app, however. I guess CyanogenMod did a great job in this regard. There is now even a terminal app included, but it has to be activated from the developer settings. > I have spare S3's here, I'll try to build your tree and see if I get > something that boots. Please let me know if it works for you! I am currently trying to get rid of the prebuilt toolchain, so there could be issues in the future when building the code with a setup that is different from mine. I will try to push changes in this area only when I am reasonably sure that it won't break the build for others. > Thanks for working on this! > > /Simon > >> Hi all, >> >> happy new year to you all! >> >> The last weeks I was working on getting Replicant upgraded to a newer >> CyanogenMod/Android release. I only work on the Samsung Galaxy S3 as >> I only own this device for testing. I posted a report on the current >> status and my work to the development forum: >> https://redmine.replicant.us/boards/21/topics/12057 >> Basically all functionality works now, but there is still some work >> left. >> >> I will also make a video that shows the current status. >> >> I hope that my work can be useful for getting Replicant upgraded to a >> newer release! >> >> Best regards, >> Wolfgang >> -- OpenPGP: 0F30 D1A0 2F73 F70A 6FEE 048E 5816 A24C 1075 7FC4 download: https://wiedmeyer.de/keys/ww.asc
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