It was just the beginning of the fork.
Then, Gmail stopped loading images. Not all images—just the ones hosted on Google’s own CDN. A weird, specific failure, like a drawer that only jammed when you wanted a fork. open gapps android 7.1
She’d seen this before. It was the ghost of the 2021 Play Services update, the one that silently drew a line in the sand: Android 8.0 or newer, or get out. It was just the beginning of the fork