VK, Yandex, Sberbank and Rostelecom are going to jointly establish a new company that will develop a Russian mobile platform based on the Android code base. The use of Android as a basis will maintain compatibility with a large number of already released applications. The platform will be designed for the consumer segment, while the Sailfish is already developed by Rostelecom of the Aurora at the code base, it will be aimed at using it in state institutions and corporations.
For the platform, they plan to develop analogues of proprietary applications and services from the set google mobile services (GMS), which will make it possible to get rid of the tapping To the services and infrastructure of Google. For example, their own updates delivery services, distribution of programs, location, synchronization of time, DNS, storage of backups and synchronization of files can be expanded, as well as analogues of applications such as Google Search, Chrome, YouTube, Google Play, Google Drive, Gmail , Google Maps, Google Photos, Google TV and YouTube Music. It is worth noting that a similar task of creating Android editorial offices, delivered from binding to Google services, already solve open projects such as microg, opengaps , Calyxosos. ,/E/OS and Lineageos.