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You can easily disable Google services on most Android devices. Or purchase a Cyanogenmod compatible device and use a third party store.
by vamur 10y ago
You can easily disable Google services on most Android devices. Or purchase a Cyanogenmod compatible device and use a third party store.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoThe problem is that the majority of apps written on Android these days depend on Google APIs or libraries, to the point that an Android without Play Services is almost useless. (Yes, this is from experience.) Even Google's direct competitors require Google to use an Android. Skype and Outlook are great examples of apps you'd be amazed to discover will not run at all without Play Services.
- abawany 10y agoThere are fake GApps that I have tried on experimental devices and they fooled the apps enough to enable them to run. I haven't run these long-term or tried on more than 3 apps relevant to me to say if that would be a good approach.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoI'd be a little iffy about security considerations once your plan is to rely on "fake apps".
- abawany 10y agoI am not referring to mysterious binary blobs retrieved from torrents or such but open source projects such as https://github.com/thermatk/FakeGApps https://github.com/thermatk/FakeGApps (http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.thermatk.android.xf.fakegapps http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.thermatk.android.xf.fakeg...).
- nir 10y agoPeople reading HN could, but the general public doesn't really have that option.
- xanderstrike 10y agoDoes the general public care though?
- nzp 10y agoNot at all. A lot of people who gather at places like these don't seem to realise that ordinary people have much more pressing problems in life than running a phone OS they can tinker with.
- neurostimulant 10y agoDoes push notification still work without google services running?