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Bypass apps that require Google Play?
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this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2024
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To my knowledge OsmAnd works fine without Google services, and is fully open source. Based on open street map, which others have suggested as well.
Alternatively, to more directly answer your question, there are apps that emulate the Google API. Look into GmsCore (GitHub), or cancer microg, maybe as a starting point. I'm not 100% on which part of the Google API they provide, and if it's the part your app relies on.
Hilariously the Google Maps app itself works without Google Play Services, that one was a surprise to discover (and obviously pretty useless if you're trying to avoid Google's tracking)
Thanks! This is what I was looking for.
Osmand is great for most of what I need on a daily basis, but on a trip a few years ago, some of the hiking trails were not up to date and we got lost. It wasn't terrible, but it was uncomfortable and fortunately we had paper maps.
I would like to use the maps provided by the park or forestry service since I like to think that they're current, but they rely on Avenza which relies on Google. I'm okay taking a risk on Avenza for the short duration of the trip and plan to not give it network access, but I doubt I could do that with Google Play services, much less cleanly uninstall it after the trip is over.
microG https://microg.org might work with the Avenza app.
/e/ OS is based on microG and relatively easy to install https://e.foundation/e-os/
I'm running /e/ OS 1.8.1. Avenza seems to be the problem here. There are other apps too, but this is the lastest. It's frustrating to be required to use closed source proprietary software for public services, like the forestry maps.
oh, too bad 😬
Not so sure it is fully open source.
OSMAnd+ on F-Droid : https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmand.plus/
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None of those change that the source is open.
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