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Quick question - if someone buys a Huawei phone without Play Store and Gmail, could they just download those things later? E.g. could it be done aftermarket?
by ETHisso2017 7y ago
Quick question - if someone buys a Huawei phone without Play Store and Gmail, could they just download those things later? E.g. could it be done aftermarket?
- KaoruAoiShiho 7y agoI believe they cannot, Google demands certification before allowing their apps to be used. It's impossible to sideload google apps.
- the_pwner224 7y agoUnless this google certification is stored in hardware, that's not the case. You can flash Android phones with a custom bootloader, use that to flash AOSP (open source core android)/LineageOS, and for most people doing that the next step is to flash gapps on top of that. Here's a popular gapps distribution: https://opengapps.org/#aboutsection https://opengapps.org/#aboutsection Google's requirements mainly apply to OEMs bundling gapps into their stock images.
- KaoruAoiShiho 7y agolocked bootloader in huawei I think, even if they open it it's not really a normal sideload and will be hard enough to not be a generally applicable solution.
- lucb1e 7y agoI've got root on my Huawei P10 lite since day one (would have returned the phone if it were closed), not sure where you got the idea that unlocking the bootloader is not possible.
- KaoruAoiShiho 7y agoThat's just what I heard online, but maybe it's different between models.
- dannyr 7y agoGoogle apps and a lot of other apps need Google Play Services to work.
- Markoff 7y agothey have their own AppGallery store and email app, after all gmail it's crap compared to Nine, Aqua mail or Maildroid, honestly don't understand people using it so in the end bakery competition could benefit from this Google push, dev can choose another store not stealing 30% of their money