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The Android app seems to require google play services. Quite ironic for an app that wants to give me back control of my data. I think this defeats the purpose o
by Lariscus 5y ago
The Android app seems to require google play services. Quite ironic for an app that wants to give me back control of my data. I think this defeats the purpose of the app if I take steps to reduce my dependency on google services I might as well go the whole way; Whats the point of half measures like this. Checking the issue tracker the devs do not seem to agree, a shame really the app seemed interesting at first.
- growse 5y ago(I help work on the Android client) The OSS build of the Android app doesn't depend on Google Play Services, and is currently available from the github release page: https://github.com/owntracks/android/releases https://github.com/owntracks/android/releases (and has been since v2.4.0 released last year). > Whats the point of half measures like this Personally, I don't care about Google knowing my location. I care about having my location data on a system I control so I can do useful things with it.
- Lariscus 5y agoOh good, I will give it a try in that case. I just found a couple of issues and a merge request that was later reverted so I assumed the dependency was still there.