CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative

Re:CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative by godelski on Friday August 06, 2021 @01:57PM (#28090713)

You are always able to add playstore in. But of course this comes with some cost to privacy.

There's also other app stores like f-Droid. Usually these are populated with the same apps but often there are ones you are going to have a harder time getting.

Does anyone know if there's a way to do a sandboxed playstore? Like you can use it to download the apps and update (assuming this won't be automatic) but that it is contained otherwise?

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Re:CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative by dstryr on Friday August 06, 2021 @02:34PM (#28091183)

- Install Shelter from F-Droid

- Install the Aurora store apk inside of Shelter

- Open Aurora store in Shelter's work profile and use like a normal play store and all apps installed within Aurora remain sandboxed

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Re:CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative by cdesai on Friday August 06, 2021 @02:47PM (#28091329)

There is also a built-in Work Profile feature now, under Settings -> System -> Multiple Users.

It basically does the same thing under the hood.

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