Submitted 1 year ago by tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social to askandroid@lemdro.id
Hello! I was looking on plexus.techlore.tech for my most used apps to understand what I’d miss if I degoogled my smartphone, and surprising Satispay seems to be completely unusable without play services or microG. It is very counter intuitive for me, as it has nothing to do with google. Any idea?
May be better to ask in a privacy community, if you haven’t already
!privacy@lemmy.ml !privacy@lemmy.world !privacyguides@lemmy.one
Google Play Services provides a ton of APIs which some programmers may refer to, while developing their apps. These APIs are not part of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). So if an app uses any of these APIs, depending on what/how it’s being used, an app may have partial functionality, or may not even work at at all, on a de-Googled/pure AOSP ROM.
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 1 year ago
I’m guess that’s the same issue for the LIDL app, they hardcoded the google maps library for the store search. Completely pointless as it would be perfectly usable without it.
So, like for the LIDL app, Satispay has a version without play services on the Huawei Store: appgallery.huawei.com/#/app/C100868471
tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 1 year ago
this is very interesting! How can I install it on a non-huawei smartphone? do I need to install their store? It seems a bit of a counter sense to install another closed source app store…
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 1 year ago
I installed their store in a VM (they freely allow install on any device), then I extract the apps
IMHO they should have named it like “petal store”, because anyway it’s not operated by Huawei itself but by an European entity sockpuppet and then they might had some extra downloads from other devices
lemann@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Very useful to know - may explain why the lidl app doesn’t work correctly on my device, although not the same issue you had