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Question about play services (lemmy.kde.social)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hello! I'm running GrapheneOS on my Pixel 7 with sandboxed play services, and use some apps that depends on play services like Satispay and my banking app. Today I tried, as an experiment, to deactivate the play service app, and see what happens. Well, they both opens and seem to work, except for a notification saying "Activate Play Services, this app will not work if you don't" Is this notification lying? Or are some functionalitis not working without play services? If yes, which one?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Some obscure or secondary function might not work.

I had this app for example (can't remember the name) that insisted on getting networking permissions. I kept refusing each time it asked at startup time but it was working fine. Then one day I realized it wanted it for its online help that I never read.

It really depends on the app.

Also, you have app developers that copy/paste sample code, adapt it a bit to their purpose and call it good enough, even of the sample code includes a lot of libs and permissions that aren't actually used by that particular application.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

My city's parking app does this: "You must enable Google Play Services to use this app." Works perfectly anyways

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yep, I get this sometimes on apps that work just fine.