Hello! I was looking on https://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?
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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.
For the LIDL app they made a separate version without play services on the huawei store https://appgallery.huawei.com/#/app/C102933829
So, like for the LIDL app, Satispay has a version without play services on the Huawei Store: https://appgallery.huawei.com/#/app/C100868471
I really wonder why they can’t just use mapbox and make a single app version that doesn’t require google services. It’s even cheaper to use mapbox instead of google maps…
For the LIDL app they made a separate version without play services on the huawei store https://appgallery.huawei.com/#/app/C102933829
Very useful to know - may explain why the lidl app doesn’t work correctly on my device, although not the same issue you had
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…
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
and how do you update? you have to manually check in the VM if a new version is available?
Yup
perhaps I found a better solution: Obtainium
It is completely FOSS, and allows to add apps from a multitude of sources, including Huawei’s AppStore. Just find the app you want to install in AppGallery’s website, copy the link (e.g.: https://appgallery.huawei.com/app/C102933829) and paste it into Obtainium. It will download and install the app, and check for updates periodically, notifying you to update. Seems promising!Much better!
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.