I want to use pre existing apps from the Android ecosystem, but I want the system to let me install and change anything I want. It looks like android is going to heavily restrict installing apps that are not on play store and there are now ~5 apps that I use that don't exist on Play store, but only on Obtanium or Zapstore.

My hope is that installation of the Android apps on Linux phone could be made seamless.

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dpark 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It seems like an Android fork that supports the stores you want would be a lot simpler.

I’m sure Google would deny Google Play Services to any popular fork that didn’t follow their rules. But they would do the same to any Linux desktop or whatever that didn’t follow their rules, too, if it became popular.

	▲	nout an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, you have a good point that Android fork would cover a lot of what I'm asking.