I've never had a Facebook account nor used an official market as the primary means of obtaining software, so I can't give any guidance on ditching them, but I c

I've never had a Facebook account nor used an official market as the primary means of obtaining software, so I can't give any guidance on ditching them, but I can tell you what I do without them. Last time I owned an iOS phone, I was using Cydia to install software, but I haven't kept up, so I don't know what that scene is like. In the future, it may be possible to load software yourself, on an unmodified version of iOS, but for now I don't think it's possible, although it's easy on Android. There's no need to make a web interface to work around running native software, in Android you can just compile and run whatever you want, without Google's involvement. If you want an interface on your phone for installing from a large software library, You can download the F-Droid installer here: https://f-droid.org/ https://f-droid.org/ The user interface is awful, because it follows Google's design guidelines, so I usually search for and download software from that same web page, then load the APK file onto my phone using adb, which is available from the andoid-tools package in most operating systems. Local push notifications did stop working well in Android, when Google started pushing a paid service to run all notifications through their cloud infrastructure, so I just send an email message to gmail, which gets an immediate notification.