After deprecating Android Beam in Android 10, Google looks to be removing it entirely in Android 14.
pointed me to a series of patches cleaning up what remains of Android Beam in the platform.
android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:p2p-cl
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As I reported back in 2019, Google ceased development of Android Beam but left it available for device makers who wanted to use it. Now it'll just be gone from the platform entirely.
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Of course, this isn't a big deal since we have Nearby Share now, though that's only available on GMS Android devices and not AOSP like Android Beam was.
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Nearby Share works via Sandboxed Google Play on GrapheneOS without any special privileges or integration into the base OS for it.