Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ‘Android alternative’

Re:Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ... by dispose13432 on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @06:26PM (#13067108)

Why are there no Open Source implementations of Google's API?

Except for that, most of their complaints don't hold water. No OS texting app? Go to f-droid and find them. No browser? Go to f-droid.

The only issue is the API, much of which actually depends on Google Data (for example, Geolocation would be a problem without Google's WiFi data)

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Re:Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ... by JonnieCache on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @06:50PM (#13067263)

There is one: https://microg.org

It's very much an alpha however.

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Re:Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ... by lima on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @06:53PM (#13067273)

Still works surprisingly well for most basic usage.

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Re:Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ... by hackuser on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @06:51PM (#13067265)

There are several alternatives to Google Apps, if that is what you are referring to, including TK Gapps and the MicroG project (as far as I know - I haven't used them myself).

> for example, Geolocation would be a problem without Google's WiFi data

UnifiedNlp[0] geolocation, when I looked into it a little while ago, could use various data sources including Mozilla's, Apple's, OpenWlanMap, and others.

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[0] https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_UnifiedNlp/

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Re:Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ... by tananaev on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @09:59PM (#13068122)

There is also an alternative for location APIs:

https://github.com/mapzen/lost

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