GrapheneOSA growing number of apps are using the Play Integrity API to enforce installation from the Play Store. This is clearly highly illegal anti-competitive behavior. It doesn't impact GrapheneOS users installing apps with the sandboxed Play Store but does impact other install sources.
This is being done alongside Google recommending app developers forbid installing their apps from the Play Store on operating systems not licensing Google Mobile Services. The combination of these feature ends up blocking users from easily using the apps without modifying them.
We're going to add a secure way of working around this without breaking the app source security model. We'll be adding support for having the OS automatically verify the Play Store signing metadata and then inform Play services those apps were installed from the Play Store.
DennisKrämer@GrapheneOS Great to hear that!
Will this function also be able to get navigation apps not installed via PlayStore working in AndroidAuto?
Will this function also be able to get navigation apps not installed via PlayStore working in AndroidAuto?
@denniskraemer We could make it work for that too.
@GrapheneOS Wonderful to hear. That would be a long awaited feature.