Iām about to degoogle my stock Android phone. For the past few years, Iāve used it to handle the non-open source apps that I donāt want running on my main phone. As Iāve finally weaned off GApps, I realize that I might as well go degoogle the rom as well.
edit: to be clear, Iāll be using sandboxed Play services on GOS
But since that phone is my compatibility guinea pig, is it likely Iāll 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?
Yeah, only thing I can think of is the few banking apps that donāt 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 carrierās 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.
NFC payments with Google wallet, in theory if your bank provides the service in their app, you could still use this kind of payment, havenāt tried it tho.
Also I only found a developer for which their games donāt work, itās the developer of guardian tales.
Aside from that, with sandboxed play services there hasnāt been any difference since I migrated to GOS.
Uber/lyft. You can use uber via the web but not lyft. If uber ever stops working on web then thats it.
Yeah. I donāt mean to correct you. Just trying to give a full picture for folks reading along.
Lyft is a necessity for me, so I couldnāt have switched to GrapheneOs without it.
I was about to correct you because Iāve done lyft on web, but it looks like itās not supported anymore.
I still have to find that app that does not just run in GOS. There may be a few that I donāt know about because I donāt 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.