Will there be an official buiild for the Pixel 8a

[teatimetom]

Official builds are developed by iodeOS so far only for mobile phones which iodeOS also physically own.
Nevertheless, the developers are also considering developing official builds for non-physical devices. And you can also lock the bootloader in the future. However, this still seems to be a bit in the distance.

Is there a way to verify community builds are safe? - Pixel 8a (akita)

I am advocating for an official build for the Pixel 8a and the rest of the Pixel 9 series (beyond only the Pixel 9 which just was acquired by the dev team to create builds for). I did find that typically we only provide official builds for devices that the team has physical units of for hardware testing and support. But for series devices like this I think it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to extend to the other models, maybe with an asterisk or something. This would then allow them to be ab…

The unofficial version runs wonderfully on my Pixel8a by the way.