Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS

Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @11:16AM (#12590223)

The problem is that the majority of apps written on Android these days depend on Google APIs or libraries, to the point that an Android without Play Services is almost useless. (Yes, this is from experience.)

Even Google's direct competitors require Google to use an Android. Skype and Outlook are great examples of apps you'd be amazed to discover will not run at all without Play Services.

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Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS by abawany on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @06:39PM (#12593819)

There are fake GApps that I have tried on experimental devices and they fooled the apps enough to enable them to run. I haven't run these long-term or tried on more than 3 apps relevant to me to say if that would be a good approach.

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Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @03:38AM (#12596033)

I'd be a little iffy about security considerations once your plan is to rely on "fake apps".

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Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS by abawany on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @06:29PM (#12601872)

I am not referring to mysterious binary blobs retrieved from torrents or such but open source projects such as https://github.com/thermatk/FakeGApps (http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.thermatk.android.xf.fakeg...).

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