Anecdotally I’ve never had an app refuse to work on GrapheneOS with the sandboxed play store. Most I’ve had to do is enable the compatibility mode. Even all my banking apps work
I don’t even have the sandboxed Play store and everything works. I use Aurora to download APKs for anything that isn’t FOSS (which is like, two things)
MicroG might be installed, but I don’t use anything that uses it. Since Aurora lets you search for apps that don’t require it, I always go for one that doesn’t.
The point is that people severely exaggerate how “unusable” a degoogled phone is. There are FOSS alternatives to most things, and anything there isn’t an alternative to is probably a shitty service that you’d be better off without (see: burger apps)
Banking apps are pretty important, as is mychart for my doctor. I suppose I could get them through browser or PWA but it’s massively easier to just get the app.
I wouldn’t call a completely degoogled phone “unusable” but for most people it’s going to be mildly to massively inconvenient for little benefit. You can get like 90% of that benefit for 2% of the inconvenience with the sandboxed playstore
Anecdotally I’ve never had an app refuse to work on GrapheneOS with the sandboxed play store. Most I’ve had to do is enable the compatibility mode. Even all my banking apps work
I don’t even have the sandboxed Play store and everything works. I use Aurora to download APKs for anything that isn’t FOSS (which is like, two things)
Are you using microG or Google Services Framework at all?
MicroG might be installed, but I don’t use anything that uses it. Since Aurora lets you search for apps that don’t require it, I always go for one that doesn’t.
Oh. Well then yeah of course it’ll all work
The point is that people severely exaggerate how “unusable” a degoogled phone is. There are FOSS alternatives to most things, and anything there isn’t an alternative to is probably a shitty service that you’d be better off without (see: burger apps)
Banking apps are pretty important, as is mychart for my doctor. I suppose I could get them through browser or PWA but it’s massively easier to just get the app.
I wouldn’t call a completely degoogled phone “unusable” but for most people it’s going to be mildly to massively inconvenient for little benefit. You can get like 90% of that benefit for 2% of the inconvenience with the sandboxed playstore