Google Maps Android API utility library
Maps SDK for Android Utility Library (by googlemaps)
GmsCore
Free implementation of Play Services (by microg)
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| Google Maps Android API utility library | GmsCore | |
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| 1 | 264 | |
| 3,371 | 4,760 | |
| 0.4% | 2.8% | |
| 8.0 | 8.3 | |
| 7 days ago | 8 days ago | |
| Java | Java | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Google Maps Android API utility library
Posts with mentions or reviews of Google Maps Android API utility library.
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Images in the description on placemarks doesn't load because an asterisk
I'm trying to load images in the description on an placemark in Google Maps, I'm using this code, the kml file is right, but when I download and import it in my app, the images url contains an asterisk, and the app doesn't detect the full url to the image from there.
GmsCore
Posts with mentions or reviews of GmsCore.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-23.
- How long did it take you to adjust to a de-googled phone?... Big hurdles I am struggling with.
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Any good roms for a poco f3?
Btw2: Privacy? Android 12 has a toggle to turn off camera and microphone... All the ROMs are good at privacy. But if you choose a non-google ROM (which I kinda don't recommend, Pixel ROMs are very good.), you can flash MicroG, which will give you Google services, but with a very few more things added or removed.
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Google keeps stopping
I am sure a logcat of the error would be a good hint to get an idea of what's going on. You can search for the issue here. (Also check closed issues as it might be already solved)
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Simple Phone is on its way!
You should consider using the MicroG project to replace Google Play Services. https://microg.org/
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Elon musk plans on firing 1000 workers who work for twitter and then making the rest of Twitter's staff work much harder. it's time for workers at twitter to unionize!
AOSP is Android. and you can do pretty much everything without Google services now, take a look at microG
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MicroG on custom ROM
I followed the official installation guide. https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Installation
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Ever since I started using App Tracking Protection, I see Google secretly collects as many as 34 data including First name and Last name. I remember I had already opt out of everything in the Privacy setting. Every app that I use and open, Google will always be there to secretly do so.
You can also use MicroG on Android. It's an open-source Google Play Service substitute/emulator. It may not contain all the features Google has, but most apps will work just fine.
- Google releasing one last Pixel 3a and 3a XL update, arriving ‘by July’
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Bypass MicroG Settings app and start MicroG Services Core via Tasker send intent
Without Signature Spoofing, microG won't work: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Signature-Spoofing
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Use purchased version without Google
The licence is stored with Google, so licence verification requires their services. You'll find this problem with the vast majority of in-app purchases on Android If you're trying to avoid Google, given that they are the owners and developers of the OS. The closest you can get to de-googling your phone without losing access to your purchases is to use an alternative Google services implementation like microg https://microg.org/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Google Maps Android API utility library and GmsCore you can also consider the following projects:
MinMicroG - Sources and scripts for MinMicroG installers. You shall find no prebuilt releases here.
FakeGApps - A better approach for microg
opengapps - The main repository of the Open GApps Project
anbox - Anbox is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system
NanoDroid
bromite - Bromite a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!
whoogle-search - A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine
NewPipe - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
Tachidesk-Server - A rewrite of Tachiyomi for the Desktop
waydroid - Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.
Android-WebRTC-Firebase - Sample Android App for WebRTC with Firebase as backend
UnifiedNlp - Alternative network location provider for Android, with plugin interface to easily integrate third-party location providers.