Cyanogen is done building its Android-based OS

Oct11

by Sindy Cator on October 11, 2016 at 6:14 am

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Mobile

Cyanogen has some bad news for fans of its Android-based OS: The company will no longer build its full-stack Android fork, which is available on phones from Alcatel, Wileyfox, BQ, Yu, ZUK and OnePlus. Instead, it will now focus on a new Modular OS program, which will allow smartphone makers “greater freedom and opportunity to introduce intelligent, customizable Android smartphones using different parts of the Cyanogen OS via dynamic modules and MODs, with the ROM of their choice, whether stock Android or their own variant.” The company describes MODs as intelligent features that build on the core Android experience, such…