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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by monovergent@lemmy.ml to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

I'm about to degoogle my stock Android phone. For the past few years, I've used it to handle the non-open source apps that I don't want running on my main phone. As I've finally weaned off GApps, I realize that I might as well go degoogle the rom as well.

edit: to be clear, I'll be using sandboxed Play services on GOS

But since that phone is my compatibility guinea pig, is it likely I'll still run into an app that demands unmodded Android with no alternatives? In your experience, has any bank or other service required the app on regular Android, with no alternative for the desktop, browser, etc?

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[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, only thing I can think of is the few banking apps that don't have web versions.

I was lucky enough to have all my banking and 2FA apps work perfectly on GrapheneOS. The only app that gave me a significant amount of trouble was iClicker, which my school uses for attendance. That was fixed by enabling Google Play location services, and there was a (fairly expensive) alternative anyway.

I did have to buy a new phone to use Graphene, because I got my previous one as part of a carrier's cell plan, and it had a locked BIOS. Though I think the purchase was worth it, and just moving my SIM card from one device to another was enough to get it working.

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago

Uber/lyft. You can use uber via the web but not lyft. If uber ever stops working on web then thats it.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Lyft works fine with sandboxed GFS on GrapheneOS, though.

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

But the OP specifically said DeGoogled ROM, which would mean no GFS.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah. I don't mean to correct you. Just trying to give a full picture for folks reading along.

Lyft is a necessity for me, so I couldn't have switched to GrapheneOs without it.

[-] sunzu@kbin.run 3 points 1 year ago

Both work with MicroG as fyi

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Good to know. Thanks!

[-] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I was about to correct you because I've done lyft on web, but it looks like it's not supported anymore.

https://ride.lyft.com/not-supported

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's the unfortunate thing. It used to be supported, but they've killed it.

[-] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 6 points 1 year ago

NFC payments with Google wallet, in theory if your bank provides the service in their app, you could still use this kind of payment, haven't tried it tho.
Also I only found a developer for which their games don't work, it's the developer of guardian tales.

Aside from that, with sandboxed play services there hasn't been any difference since I migrated to GOS.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Indian and Turkish banking apps. Webapps are banned there.

[-] viking@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

Same for Malaysian banking apps.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago
[-] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Yep. Even if I can open the mobile website, I need to generate a login code through their app.

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

I still have to find that app that does not just run in GOS. There may be a few that I don't know about because I don't use them, but all the ones I use just work.

Granted, most of my daily use apps are FOSS and installed either from F-Droid or from source repo.

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago
[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Loads of things that depend on google play services

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