The last time I tried that getting google play services working was a long, annoying process and did not work. I don’t expect google to make any of that easy for us.
fair point, i’m very used to just using f-droid, aurora, or sideloading apks from dubious places, for my phone and tablet, that i completely forget how much android stuff “needs” google services.
I got netflix running without google play, i think installed from aurora store. It needed a script to install widevide DRM that seemed to work.
But I can imagine things like games being more of a pain especially with online.
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The last time I tried that getting google play services working was a long, annoying process and did not work. I don’t expect google to make any of that easy for us.
fair point, i’m very used to just using f-droid, aurora, or sideloading apks from dubious places, for my phone and tablet, that i completely forget how much android stuff “needs” google services.
I got netflix running without google play, i think installed from aurora store. It needed a script to install widevide DRM that seemed to work.
But I can imagine things like games being more of a pain especially with online.