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Hasn't this been going on for about 12 months?

Android has been blocked for a long time in China, and everything came from some fork. Maybe this is a new fork?




Android has been blocked in China? Since when? I'm sure the 4,000-odd employees of Motorola in China developing Android phones for sale in China would disagree with you...


I'm in China now and see Android phones on sale. A lot of google services are blocked, youtube, plus, the maps app, and others, but Android is alive and well.


developer.android.com was blocked in China.

That didn't stop companies making the phones and installing the OS (through a third party or with special permission, or most likely through a proxy). There was some fork in Chinese, which could be accessed.

Also, I think the App store was blocked, and a Chinese App store set up instead.


When was this? I'm able to visit developer.android.com fine here...even go to my android market publisher profile to publish apps.


There's google groups posts about this dating from 24 months ago.

Also, python.org/downloads was also blocked (but not the rest of python.org). If you go to python.org now, there's a page labeled "Downloads" in Chinese for Chinese downloads which is not blocked. I guess it's easier to create a mirror than lobby to get a page removed from the banned list. It's weird though.

I think there was some Chinese version of android.com, but I don't know how close to the original it was.




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