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Can you get Google Play Services on it?

by gman83 10y ago

elastic_church 10y ago
Otherwise it is useless! speaking of which, is there a generic push notification system available that doesn't require Google Play Services? doesn't seem that hard in theory. websocket service that instructs the creation of an android notification object
- gman83 10y ago
  https://pushy.me/ https://pushy.me/
- stevekemp 10y ago
  https://pushover.net/ https://pushover.net/ is what I use. There is also https://www.pushbullet.com/ https://www.pushbullet.com/ which I have bookmarked, but not tested.
butz 10y ago
Probably microg could be legally used.
RussianCow 10y ago
This is covered in their FAQ: "Is it possible to install the Google Play Store? Yes, this is generally possible. However Google doesn't allow anyone to ship its applications as long as the device is not certified and the vendor didn't sign an agreement with Google. The Anbox project does not have any interest in shipping the Google Play store and we're not allowed to do so. We may add an easy way for our users at a later point which allows easy distribution of Android applications suited for the Anbox runtime environment."
- zamber 10y ago
  I guess this can be easily fixed by flashing a gapps package on the guest Android image. That is if flashing stuff is actually supported.
exabrial 10y ago
There was a thread a few weeks ago on HN about running Android w/o google... can't seem to find it
- 4c2383f5c88e911 10y ago
  But anbox is already running a flavor of AOSP, which is android without google (unless you meant android without google code, in which case you will have exactly nothing to run). AOSP can entirely be built from source, everything is Apache2-licenced, and it does not contain or require the gapps. Now you can add most gapps APIs (in order to make apps that rely on them work) through the microg project, or you can install the official google services using opengapps.

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Can you get Google Play Services on it?

by gman83 10y ago

Can you get Google Play Services on it?

elastic_church 10y ago
Otherwise it is useless! speaking of which, is there a generic push notification system available that doesn't require Google Play Services? doesn't seem that hard in theory. websocket service that instructs the creation of an android notification object
- gman83 10y ago
  https://pushy.me/ https://pushy.me/
- stevekemp 10y ago
  https://pushover.net/ https://pushover.net/ is what I use. There is also https://www.pushbullet.com/ https://www.pushbullet.com/ which I have bookmarked, but not tested.
butz 10y ago
Probably microg could be legally used.
RussianCow 10y ago
This is covered in their FAQ: "Is it possible to install the Google Play Store? Yes, this is generally possible. However Google doesn't allow anyone to ship its applications as long as the device is not certified and the vendor didn't sign an agreement with Google. The Anbox project does not have any interest in shipping the Google Play store and we're not allowed to do so. We may add an easy way for our users at a later point which allows easy distribution of Android applications suited for the Anbox runtime environment."
- zamber 10y ago
  I guess this can be easily fixed by flashing a gapps package on the guest Android image. That is if flashing stuff is actually supported.
exabrial 10y ago
There was a thread a few weeks ago on HN about running Android w/o google... can't seem to find it
- 4c2383f5c88e911 10y ago
  But anbox is already running a flavor of AOSP, which is android without google (unless you meant android without google code, in which case you will have exactly nothing to run). AOSP can entirely be built from source, everything is Apache2-licenced, and it does not contain or require the gapps. Now you can add most gapps APIs (in order to make apps that rely on them work) through the microg project, or you can install the official google services using opengapps.