Open source compatible application 'microG' for using Android while breaking away from Google Play developer services

Important features of Google apps and Android are not available without Google Play Developer Services . In order to break away from such Google Play developer services, ' microG ' is a project to develop free open source software that is compatible with Google Play.

microG Project
https://microg.org/

microG Project · GitHub
https://github.com/microg

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Android smartphones and tablets come with an app called Google Play Developer Services pre-installed and always running in the background.

Google Play Developer Services is a service program that provides the APIs required to use various Google services. Therefore, without Google Play Developer Services, apps running on Android cannot provide Google authentication, privacy settings, or location services.

On the other hand, the Google Play developer service has a large application capacity and uses a lot of memory, so it consumes a lot of battery. However, many apps cannot operate normally without Google Play Developer Services, so they cannot be deleted.

There are Android smartphones out there that do not have Google Play Developer Services, but those devices cannot use Google's libraries and APIs and are excluded from the Google ecosystem.

Therefore, microG started in 2015 as an open source project to develop Google's own core library and application cloning software.

microG consists of the following five.

・ Service core (GmsCore)
A library app for running apps that use the Google Play Developer Services or Google Maps Android API (v2)
· Service Framework Proxy (GsfProxy)
A utility that enables apps developed for Google Cloud to Device Messaging to use the Google Cloud Messaging service included in GmsCore.
· Unified Network Location Provider (Unified Nlp)
A library that provides Wi-Fi and mobile phone tower-based location information to apps that use Google's network location providers.
・ Map API (mapsv1)
A system library that provides the same functionality as the Google Maps API (v1), which is obsolete at the time of article creation
・ Store (Phonesky)
A front-end app that provides access to the Google Play store needed to download and update the app. At the time of writing the article, it is in the initial stage, and there are no apps available yet.

Each source code is hosted on GitHub, and the apk file can be downloaded from the following page.

Download --microG Project
https://microg.org/download.html

MicroG will be supported by the Prototype Fund sponsored by the German Ministry of Education and Research from 2019, and by the / e / Foundation , which provides the Android-based free open source OS ' / e / ' from 2020. ..