Joe Hindy / Android Authority
TL;DR
- Google has quietly deprecated support for the Dialer and Messaging apps in AOSP.
- This means brands need to use their own apps or Google’s latest phone and messaging apps.
- This news could also be a blow to the custom ROM community.
The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is the foundation of Android today, being an open-source version of the platform that’s maintained by Google. This version of Android also ships with a variety of open-source apps, but it turns out that Google is killing support for two of these apps.
OS News noticed that Google had deprecated support for the Dialer and Messaging apps in AOSP, and we were able to confirm this on the Android Code Search directory.
Google left the following message for the Dialer and Messaging apps in the directory:
This app
