Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build

>>madars+(OP)
Happy long term user, great project. Here is a list of Open Source Apps, I use to replace Google stuff:

  Aurora Store - Anonymized frontend for Playstore
  F-Droid - Open Source App Store
  Obtainium - App Store for other sources (e.g. github)
  Organic Maps - Open Source navigation (not as good as proprietary ones though)
  SherpaTTS - Text to speech for Organic Maps
  PDF Doc Scanner - Little Trickster, Open Source document scanner
  Binary Eye - Barcode reader
  K9 Mail / FairMail - Mail client
  LocalSend - Cross Platform File Transfer
  Syncthing Fork - Catfriend1 Syncthing fork to sync files
  VLC Media Player - media player
  KOReader - ebook reader
  Voice - Paul Woitaschek, local audiobook player
  AudioBookShelf - Remote audiobook player
  Immich - image backup
  Fossify File Manager - file manager
  Substreamer / DSub - Audio streamer for navidrome self hosted server
  OpenCamera - Open Source camera app

I wish I had this list from the start... Hope it helps someone :-)

>>sandre+yS
for someone who doesn't want to replace Google services, does it still make sense to move to Graphene?

>>upcomi+r31
Absolutely. You can basically get almost the same experience as you would on a stock OS device, but with much better privacy. On the stock OS, Google apps get privileged access, so they can still access photos and your camera and all that, but what people don't realize is that their privileged access also includes things like usage data, hardware identifiers, etc. Using Google apps on GrapheneOS makes a lot of sense.

The only problems you might run into would be some features might require privileged access, things like Now Playing. Makes sense because normal apps cannot have unrestricted access to the microphone like that. Google Wallet works, but you cannot make payments because the app refuses to work on alternate OSes.

Besides that kind of stuff, though, I've used all sorts of Google apps without issues.

>>other8+V71
According to Terence Eden, Curve Pay allows NFC payments, at least in the UK

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