Cyanogen Shuts Down Dec 31

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Cyanogen said it plans to cease developing its open-source version of Android and will shutter its services by the end of the month. "As part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen, all services and Cyanogen-supported nightly builds will be discontinued no later than [December 31]," said the company in a blog post.



 "The open source project and source code will remain available for anyone who wants to build CyanogenMod personally." Devices that run Cyanogen OS, including the OnePlus One, will no longer receive updates from Cyanogen. Cyanogen hoped to offer a better version of Android than Google's build, but it saw little traction in the market.

This news comes after Cyanogen Inc.’s co-founder Steve Kondik left the company last month. The company said at the time that it would be consolidating into one team focused on a modular approach, building add-ons for Android as opposed to a complete operating system.

Following the announcement, the CyanogenMod team said it will start work on a new project called Lineage that aims to adhere more closely to the original grassroots vision for Cyanogen. Currently there aren’t many details on the new project, but for now, anybody using Cyanogen OS is effectively stuck without support, and those using Cyanogen services (if they exist) will be searching for replacements next week.

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Cyanogen Shuts Down Dec 31


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