expanding on that, from microG's site: "While the core operating system is still released as part of the Android Open Source Project, the majority of core apps

expanding on that, from microG's site: "While the core operating system is still released as part of the Android Open Source Project, the majority of core apps are not. It gets worse: More and more libraries and APIs are only available on phones that run various Google apps pre-installed, effectively locking third-party apps to the Google ecosystem. For these reasons Android is described as being a “look but don’t touch” kind of open." MicroG is a project aimed at developing open source alternatives to those android components. https://microg.org/ https://microg.org/