Comment by devsda
15 days ago
I'm glad fdroid is voicing its concerns and asking people to act.
This is not just another technical challenge. If your country is ever in the crosshairs of "American interests" and bears the brunt of its sanctions, it is possible that you cannot install apps from your fellow citizens i.e. your own local government, bank and store apps.
Countries that are likely to face sanctions are also likely to be predominantly Android users, so it affects them disproportionately. Good luck teaching your fellow citizens to root phones their phones(which is getting hard and outright impossible on certain phones) if that happens.
This is a real challenge that countries need to think and plan for.
Lineageos has probably the most compatibility among the android-compatible opensource and open (not vendor-locked) phone OSes. However the list of compatible phones is too small. There's almost devices one can go and buy (except Pixels, but I would not use Google's Pixels just to avoid feeding the wolves).