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.
It works great, with the caveat that paid apps and in-app purchases are
a no-go. Even my banking apps (plural) work perfectly.
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.
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 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/
On 2025-08-19 06:37, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote:
On Mon Aug18'25 09:11:13PM, Joe Average wrote:
From: Joe Average <sixpack13@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:11:13 -0000
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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
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