I, an engineer, am not doing this myself, too. There is a middle ground though: just use a privacy-oriented Android build, like DivestOS. [1] There are a couple caveats: 1. It is still a bit tricky for a non-technical person to install. Should not be a problem if they know somebody who can help, though. There's been some progress making the process more user friendly recently (e.g. WebUSB-based GrapheneOS... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
...will need to be rewritten to avoid Google Play Services. Not true. All that needs to happen is for open source developers to "re-implement Google’s proprietary Android user space apps and libraries". https://microg.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Which one should I use? Is this MicroG's official website right? (https://microg.org/). Source: 7 months ago
Have a look into https://microg.org/ . Revanced yt uses a fork of GmsCore for its non-root install, though you still have to log in with a google account. Source: 8 months ago
Google Play Services implements a lot of increasingly vital features and interfaces on Android. Not having it kills a good number of things people consider important, like push notifications (some apps are designed to still send push notifications like Signal, but it's kind of a hack and does drain the battery). If you're looking for almost the same functionality without google play services, MicroG[1] is an open... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
Try using https://microg.org/ to replace Google Play Services - it's not your average tech-savvy level. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
Google's open source product but for this post I think the context was for MicroG in vanced/revanced project. Source: 12 months ago
Or using an Open-Source reimplementation of Google Framework like microG because I'm pretty sure that if you keep the Google Framework and block them with a Firewall, there's a number of things that rely on them that will stop working (like push notification and such). Source: about 1 year ago
I think one important question to ask yourself first is this: do you require push notifications (message notifications popping up in real time) or would you be fine seeing new messages only after you open an app? If the answer to the first part is yes, then your options become somewhat limited. Push notifications on Android are a service provided by Google, so you will need to flash the Google Apps (GApps) along... Source: about 1 year ago
The Blind Shell is in fact an Android phone, though as with much other blindness technology it is fairly out of date. It’s on a Snapdragon 625 platform running Android 8.1, security patch level sometime in 2019 (bear in mind that the phone was released in 2021). It is possible to install APKs of third-party apps if you know what you’re doing and the phone even has MicroG preinstalled for Play Services, but the... Source: about 1 year ago
Since I am running a google-free Android ROM called /e/OS, I suspect that the app relies on some Google service during the connection process. But because the operating system only uses microG to re-implement some Google services, a very uncommon error gets thrown, which won't get caught, because there aren't many Android devices without Google services out there. Source: about 1 year ago
You might consider microG. One of the main sponsors of that project is the /e/ Foundation, which is also creating a great degoogled Android targeting a high privacy protection. Source: about 1 year ago
Also, scroll to the bottom of this page and see who sponsors microG ... https://microg.org/. Source: over 1 year ago
So on my previous couple of phones I tried to do something like what GrapheneOS promises. I had a de-googled version of Android, with the microg project adding support for apps that needed Google services. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago
I have been using a google-free LineageOS phone for the past 10 years and if you do not already know it, I would suggest you take a look at the fdroid-store to find google free software more easily, the microg project in case you still require some google functionality, but do not want to trust in gapps and organicmaps as an alternative to google maps and maybe syncthing in combination with keepassxc to have... Source: over 1 year ago
As a matter of fact, there have been unofficial builds [1], so it's not like the newer Pixel hardware isn't supported at all. Although being Exynos-based likely doesn't help. Besides Graphene, there's also CalyxOS [2], which is basically like LineageOS with MicroG [3]. 1. https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rom-unofficial-raven-oriole-bluejay-lineageos-20-0-for-the-pixel-6-pro-6-6a.4504823/ 2. https://calyxos.org/... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
I actually don't use ReVanced unrooted, but I assume the downloads page on their site works 😅. Source: over 1 year ago
MicroG says on their website: A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s proprietary Android user space apps and libraries. https://microg.org/. Source: over 1 year ago
MicroG (https://microg.org/) is a very cool, (it seems like) under-appreciated and important component of a usable Google-free Android system. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
My father actually has a P40 without any Google services and has no issue with it. There are open-source app stores that fully replace the Google Play Store (like Aurora), and MicroG can almost fully replace Google' proprietary Android libraries. Source: over 1 year ago
The Android OS itself is open source so anyone can use it. But you need to pay Google to have everything related to it on your Android phone, like Gmail, Maps, Drive etc. You can have a Google-less Android system like the HarmonyOS where everything is replicated sans Google. In fact, plenty of people use Microg to login to Google services without actually running Google services. Source: over 1 year ago
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