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There are F-Droid and Aurora Store. The latter is an OSS client for the Google Play Store.
by eingaeKaiy8ujie 6y ago
There are F-Droid and Aurora Store. The latter is an OSS client for the Google Play Store.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoMost apps downloaded from Aurora Store will not work on Google-free Android versions, because mainstream apps on the Google Play Store tend to require Google Play Services for even basic functionality.
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- eingaeKaiy8ujie 6y agoThere is also microG which I think solves this issue. And I see it's even sponsored by /e/ Foundation https://microg.org/ https://microg.org/.
- chroem- 6y agoThat's not exactly correct. There are FLOSS replacements for Play Services these days. See also: https://microg.org/ https://microg.org/
- johnbrodie 6y agoI recently de-Googled both my phone and my wife's. Although we try to use FOSS apps as much as possible, there's still a handful of apps we've downloaded via Aurora, all have worked fine. Obviously YMMV but I don't think "most apps won't work" is true.
- rootsudo 6y agoYes, the joke was that even though there are store alternatives, one of the most/first common things will be installing the play store as in...what happens in the Chinese phone ecosystem. I guess most people here aren't aware that google-free android phones are already a common thing.
- throwawei369 6y agoReminds me of a situation where I had to do tech support for a pal who had bought a Chinese phone (later learned it was a Xiaomi device). Turns out for some reason the Chinese model didn't have Google play store pre-installed since it is useless in their home market. However to get around this restriction, you had to locate one of the system apps, then search for a specific app inside it that would then install the Google play store. Also, unrelated but obligatory. Huawei after the Trump ban now offers a de-googled smartphone experience.