Might I suggest that you guys test out the Orfox nightly build by adding this repo on fdroid? https://dev.guardianproject.info/debug/info.guardianproject.orfox/fdroid/repo
I'm CC'ing Nathan Freitas who works on Orfox to this discussion as well. I'd love to hear that Orfox and all other Guardian Project apps are working like a charm on Replicant 6.0 on the S3! Nathan, I know you had some press in the past about putting together a Tails type of Android OS. I suggest Replicant as an upstream OS to base it on, since it respects user's freedom like no other android OS does. In Freedom and Cryptography, Kurtis Twitter: @CaptainKurtis On Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:45:37 +0100 Wolfgang Wiedmeyer <w...@wiedmeyer.de> wrote: > > 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 > >> > _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list Replicant@lists.osuosl.org http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
