So I’ve been using Fairphone Open for a while now, and it works well. There is only one small thing missing: F-Droid itself is not built into Fairphone Open, only F-Droid Privileged Extension. I’ve made an OTA ZIP package as on option that perhaps could be available in Fairphone Updater, or directly built into Fairphone Open.
Once this is done, then I’d post to the f-droid.org blog about how Fairphone is the only free software, Google-free Android device that anyone can run, no technical skills needed. It would also be the only complete Google-free Android device supported by the hardware manufacturer.
I couldn’t find the Fairphone Open sources to build myself, so I’m asking how to proceed so I can get this done!
“We are currently working on preparing our internal setup to be able to release source code of Android 7. We introduced various changes on how we structure our source tree in Android 7 compared to earlier Android versions for FP2. Also, we changed parts of our internal infrastructure and tooling. Therefore, unfortunately the source code release is taking us way longer than anticipated. However, we are nearly there and will keep you posted!”