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Google announced that starting March 2025 it will close the Android Open Source Project, moving development to private branches, limiting real‑time public contributions, narrowing the open‑source scope, and potentially reshaping the mobile OS ecosystem while having limited immediate impact on major OEMs.
Google announced that starting next week it will cease maintenance of the Android Open Source Project, shifting all Android development to internal branches, which means only Google employees can access AOSP, limiting external developers and ROM creators while having limited impact on major OEMs.
An AOSP commit proposed by a Xiaomi engineer to prohibit shell extraction of installed APKs—citing potential IP leakage—was rejected after receiving only the author’s support and two opposing votes, with reviewers arguing that such restrictions are ineffective, could be bypassed, and should be handled via DRM or device‑specific policies.