Thanks very much for this! On Tue Aug19'25 10:06:00AM, Community Support for Fedora Users wrote: > From: Alexander Burke via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 10:06:00 +0000 > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Cc: Alexander Burke <a...@alexburke.ca> > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: OT: Re: Barcode reader Android > > Hello, > > > I am not keen on going to GrapheneOS because I do not want to have a google > > account to get Playstore apps (necessary ones at least) > > I use GrapheneOS and I do not have a Google Account. I have installed apps > from the Play Store via Aurora Store [0], which uses throwaway accounts > (managed automatically and replenished as they get banned) to access the > Play Store API and to fetch the relevant APKs directly from Google.
Oh, I see: I use obtainium too, but it never occurred to me to use that to install Aurora. I have not been able to figure out how to use AppVerifier with Obtainium as appears to be recommended but perhaps I will now put in greater effort intot this. > > It works great, with the caveat that paid apps and in-app purchases are a > no-go. Even my banking apps (plural) work perfectly. That is perfect: I am not interested in paid apps (to the extent I can avoid them, and have done so so far) or in-app purchases. My computers all running Fedora, since Fedora Core 1, is good for that:-) > > If you don't have sandboxed Play Services [1] installed, you won't get push > notifications, but that's OK with me. (Signal brings its own notifications, > which work perfectly.) If you do install sandboxed Play Services, you don't > need to sign in for apps which use Google-based notifications (which is most > of them) to work. I see. So if an app is not installed via aurora (or something that is originally from F-Droid), does that mean that it comes with its own push notifications? I presume that I would miss notifications from something like Outlook lite (which I installed from Aurora) which is my work email. > > > Even Google Maps works when installed from Aurora Store and without being > signed in, as long as you have sandboxed Play Services installed or you > install a sufficiently-old version of the APK which doesn't rely on Play > Services. I see: I use GV (from F-Droid) which is a frontend for Google Maps, and MapQuest. I am not sure what I miss. > > I now have most of my apps installed via Obtainium [2]. > > 0: https://www.auroraoss.com/aurora-store > 1: https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play > 2: https://obtainium.imranr.dev/ Thanks very much again! This is very helpful to know. Best wishes, Ranjan > > > On 2025-08-19 06:37, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > > On Mon Aug18'25 09:11:13PM, Joe Average wrote: > > > From: Joe Average <sixpac...@online.de> > > > Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:11:13 -0000 > > > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > > > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > > > Subject: Re: OT: Re: Barcode reader Android > > > > > > Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > ... > > > > Our phones use CalyxOS and LineageOS (the first on a Pixel 8a and the > > > > second on a Pixel 4a5g) with the latter rooted and bootloader unlocked > > > > (which is what LineageOS requires). > > > > > > are you aware off this ? > > > https://calyxos.org/news/2025/08/01/a-letter-to-our-community/ > > > > Oh, no! Thank you for this information. Sending a project to hiatus for 4-6 > > months (and then having everyone reinstall) seems to me to be a major > > hurdle to its continuation. > > > > I am not keen on going to GrapheneOS because I do not want to have a google > > account to get Playstore apps (necessary ones at least). I just came across > > iode os and can not tell much the difference between that and CalyxOS. > > However, it is not clear to me how updated it is, given that the website > > main page is from October 2024. Actually, it is also not clear that it > > installs on an 8a. > > > > Any other options? I was originally on LineageOS with microg, and then > > moved to CalyxOS (and then to GrapheneOS for a few days before I came back). > > > > Thanks very much again for the above information! > > > > Best wishes, > > Ranjan > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
