Re:PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition
by blendergeek on Monday August 31, 2020 @10:00AM
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> Almost all Android apps rely on the closed-source GMS for essential functionality (eg: push notifications).
There is a very fine repository of fully-free Android apps hosted at https://f-droid.org.
Further, I would argue that "almost all" Android apps that are free software can easily be tweaked to not rely on Google Play Services. Non-free Android apps will not be made any better by becoming nonfree GNU/Linux apps.
There is a very fine repository of fully-free Android apps hosted at https://f-droid.org.
Further, I would argue that "almost all" Android apps that are free software can easily be tweaked to not rely on Google Play Services. Non-free Android apps will not be made any better by becoming nonfree GNU/Linux apps.