Hayden Seay Mar 7
@GrapheneOS I'm sure this has been asked a plethora of times, but given that it's open and auditable, any plans to offer a sandboxed microG in future alongside the sandboxed Play Services?
Show threadGrapheneOSMar 8
@hayden Our Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer is fully open source. microG exists to provide closed source Google Play libraries included by apps which is little different from the purpose of our approach. microG does not avoid closed source code, it exists to run closed source code. microG has poor security practices, low quality code and a poor approach to most of what it implements. We'll never add any support for using microG. microG also fundamentally requires privileged access.
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@hayden GrapheneOS does not include an implementation of Google Play and does not connect to Google servers by default. It includes our own reimplementations of substantial Google Mobile Services features and that will continue to expand. We also have our own approach to providing compatibility with apps depending on Google Play services without needing it. We provide compatibility with Google Play services and Google Play Store as regular sandboxed apps but are expanding our support without it.
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Show threadAlDownunderMar 8
@[email protected] @[email protected] cannot wait for this! Really looking forward to not having to have Google Play Services at all. Onward and upward!
Show threadHayden Seay Mar 8
@GrapheneOS I appreciate the explanation. I only ask because I commonly use Android Auto, and hate that that's the only reason I have any Google services on my phone at all, regardless of the permissions being managed.
Show threadGrapheneOSMar 8
@hayden Their approach to Android Auto is giving it an immense amount of highly privileged access. Our approach is running it as a regular sandboxed apps with granting only minimal access required. For wired Android Auto, it nearly works without any special access granted and only needs extra USB access to work. Wireless Android Auto is more invasive since giving a bunch of access to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc. is inherently invasive although that doesn't mean they actually scrape anything.