We are hiring Android app software engineers to develop and take ownership of maintaining new #GrapheneOS default applications. This is a fully remote, worldwide position. If you have experience in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and shipping production Android applications with commitment to security and privacy principles, come help fruit the next chapters of GrapheneOS. Apply:

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Soda 2 weeks ago
while i would love it if linux became a good phone platform, it needs some real work. and grapheneos removes almost all the bad from android anyway. so i just disagree that android is dead
fair point i just find it shady that somehow it is 'so impossible' to not get your hand dirty with what you are against and somehow graphene os is the oh we are so victims *give you googlephone and lenovo motorola* ahh naurr we did not have enough supporters just a trillion people guess they just dont want linux phones but google on google against google
i would love to help out, but unfortunately, i don't have the time for this as a full time job; if you wauld like me to help out, i would love to though!
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Soda 2 weeks ago
i mean i get it, i feel like we're not too many years off more phone os options but it really isn't easy to make a hardened OS that still WORKS lol, and it just couldn't be sustainable unless it was usable enough and everything
hello the cia just came to my house to hire me to hire these graphene devs for the cia sorry we just love money too much, we know that you will understand this: shalom
We are an AOSP distribution because of all the security properties it already comes with like the mandatory sandboxing of apps, permission controls, file-based disk encryption, verified boot and more. It compliments what we want out of GrapheneOS. It's an entirely reproducible free and open source project. We don't want to make an operating system using the traditional desktop Linux OS stack which sets us back on all of these things. There's a lot of things we are against when it comes to big companies like Google but we aren't forcing people to see black and white. A lot of things of AOSP and Pixels we like, but we don't want Google to be the only company producing those things either. We don't call ourselves a degoogling project because people can use what they want on GrapheneOS. Influencing you to create an opposition is politician behavior.
A program that doesn't rely on binaries to be built, i.e can be built from source all the way down, versus requiring a compiler binary somewhere along the way. Look at Core's guix builds
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ly 2 weeks ago
🫪 wtf how they messed that up?
I don't know guix but if it's source all the way down, what builds the source. At one point you'd be poking machine instructions into memory I guess if that's what you call "source".
Well, the point is that it's a small enough compiler that it can be audited and known to not have been tampered with. Look up GNU Mes and bootstrappable.org
The licensing for either makes it incompatible for bundling into GrapheneOS unfortunately. We are trying to keep the license consistent with AOSP. We do know some great apps that can fit, but we also may look to building our own apps for some. We already have two new devs working on improvements including Messages.
Aware! I'll put it up when I have a post or something. I hate leaving things empty