[luca020400]

Their plan is to remove them altogether. Still those apps have not been maintained in years, that's the normal course of action for apps in AOSP.

[hedora]

I think the big question is whether they “improve” the APIs these apps require at the same time.

That would break the alternative implementations.

[luca020400]

Android APIs are stable and an app will keep working until Google decides to bump the min SDK version in Android itself. The APIs a Google app uses are the same as any other app. Unless the app is privileged ( = can use system APIs ) there's no difference in capabilities.

[tripdout]

Oh wow, you're one of the guys from LineageOS right?

[luca020400]

There's many of us :)