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>MiniG What is this? I tried searching for it, but got nothing useful. Only things related to crypto mining, and other unrelated nonsense. It sounds interesti
by JensRex 8y ago
>MiniG
What is this? I tried searching for it, but got nothing useful. Only things related to crypto mining, and other unrelated nonsense.
It sounds interesting.
- Firerouge 8y agoProbably referring to this: https://github.com/opengapps/opengapps/wiki/Mini-Package https://github.com/opengapps/opengapps/wiki/Mini-Package
- RussianCow 8y agoI think they meant microG, which is a project that aims to replace Google Play Services with its own, API-compatible implementation. https://microg.org/ https://microg.org/
- on_and_off 8y agoI think op means micro-g Soo on Android many non basic features are enabled through Play Services. It is basically a huge library from Google that auto updates itself. Chromecast is a good example of a feature delivered entirely through play services. Google login also works that way. Many apps leverage Play Services in some way. It is common to check your play services version at startup and ask the user to update them if they are out of date compared to what your app targets. Micro-g reproduces the Play Services API and tries to deliver an open source equivalent to some of its features. I don't really buy the argument that Play Services nullifies AOSP in any way but it is interesting to see another alternative (amazon also has a similar project) that is open source.