We still need help getting early access to Android 16 sources prior to the stable release in June. Every mainstream Android OEM has it. We’re currently spending significant time on reverse engineering Android 16 Beta releases. It’s a huge waste compared to having what we need.
@ashaman2007@lemm.ee,
We’re open to working with most OEM’s, including Nothing.
Presently, Nothing’s devices don’t meet our hardware requirements and still have a long way to go. One example and a key main requirements is hardware memory tagging (MTE), which is currently missing on any Snapdragon-based device. We use MTE to provide a lot of our core protections against exploitation. A secure element with the required features is only one of part of our requirements.
These requirements are part of what we need to provide strong security. Qualcomm needs to do part of that work by implementing memory tagging like Exynos/MediaTek.
However, they might eventually release devices we could support for GrapheneOS in the future.
Ah I see. One thing I mentioned was that they seem to be iterating quickly on hardware; maybe it would be worth a discussion with them to see if they’d be interested in trying to design a device with compatible hardware, specifically in order to allow GrapheneOS as an alternate option. Maybe they’d be more likely to entertain that vs other older OEMs.