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It is true that you can get Play Store apps without a Google Account, but the Place Services framework does a lot more than this. Many apps rely upon the framew
by noarchy 11y ago
It is true that you can get Play Store apps without a Google Account, but the Place Services framework does a lot more than this. Many apps rely upon the framework for certain pieces of functionality from Google's libraries.
- ionised 11y agoYou mean Google Apps specifically? I don't use them personally but I imagine Goole Now, GMail and Google Maps would need Play Services. The apps I do use (non-google) tend to function well enough without Play Services though.
- thelibrarian 11y agoMany Android apps include the Google Play Services framework in themselves, as they provide extra functionality that is not in the baseline Android API, e.g. a JSON parser.