debian+phosh running on PinePhone

[Hiraghm]

?  IS an  'Android Icon'  really needed on a Pinephone desktop running Debian/Phosh  ?

It's a free phone. We'll put any icon we damn well please on our phone. :-p

@Boem


SORRY  !


Not my intent to Provoke  or  Offend anyone

Open Source is for everybody.

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OFF!!!

I don't think anybody should be offended by this totally valid question. When the Pinephone Brave Heart was announced and could be bought many other Linux sites got flooded with questions like: whatsapp, messenger, android, etc. The only thing why these people were interested because the Pinephone is cheaper then a Samsung Galaxy whateverthefreck.

Jesus in heaven, this is a damn Linux phone if you want android go and buy an android phone. If you don't like Google, than use LineageOS or /e/, but people let the guys work on the Linux distros, as this phone was intended to help the mobile Linux endevours to thrive not the frecking android again. If someone wants to have android on the Pinephone, then do it but start a new thread and leave this one to those who are interested in Debian. We have a separate thread for /e/, go there. I don't care.

That is my honest opinion, don't really care if I offend anyone.

I just would like to apologize for my comments above here. I was over the line and I have just installed GloDroid over my PinePhone.
I behaved like an *ss. Will never happen again.

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I don't see what there is to apologize for; my interest in the pine phone was because it's not Android, it's supposed to be Linux. This device on my desk I paid the asking price for; therefore this particular pine phone is MINE.
One of the reasons I wanted away from Android is because of the mentality that a device I paid for effectively belongs to Google to do with as THEY please, and I get to use it at their sufferance, as they say I can.
I first got into computers 42 years ago because it was something to do what *I* wanted. Read the Hacker's Manifesto.
If you want a cheap Android phone, there are a bazillion and twelve of them (I counted).
I felt so strongly about this that, before I discovered the pine phone, I was building myself a linux phone out a raspberry pi 3b+, a 5" capacitive-touch display, and a SIM320A cellular module. It would have been 3 times as thick as my pine phone, 3 times as heavy, with half the resolution... but it would be *mine* to control.
If the creators of the pine phone are going to adopt the Google/Microsoft/Apple/Samsung mentality... I'll go back to building that device, and ship this phone back to them so they can use it as a suppository.
That's how strongly *I* feel about the subject. It goes beyond sticking Android on the phone; it goes to the question of who is going to control it.
If a user wants to put an Android icon, or Android on their pine phone... fine. but Android isn't Mobian. I was given to understand this forum was for Debian-based systems. My phone came with UBTouch... fortunately I was able to replace it with Mobian... because that's what *I* wanted.

If Pine64 wants to put an Android icon (or anything else) on the phone I paid for, and tell me I just have to put up with it because it's their "free" phone... I'll happily assist them in installing the aforementioned suppository.